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Within a month the meme inspired a number of variations, applying the same or very similar phrasing to different characters from different properties. Two of the earliest examples were uploaded to Facebook page “CR7 – The Legend” and Instagram page @aamhimemekar on August 6th and 7th, 2018, garnering over 1,700 reactions and 200 shares on the former and 3,000 likes on the latter in three years (shown below, left and right respectively).

On September 3rd, Instagram user @ompb posted a version of the meme using their parrots, garnering over 7,900 likes in roughly three years (shown below). On October 21st, Facebook page “Funny Texts” reposted the image, garnering over 29,000 reactions and 82,000 shares in a comparable span of time.

On December 25th, Redditor u/LoosyEU posted a comic to /r/wholesomememes about a man asking for a woman’s hand in marriage following the format of the meme, garnering over 2,000 upvotes in just under three years (shown below).

The meme then saw another spike in popularity in mid-to-late 2019. For example, on December 10th, 2019, Redditor u/monkeymind1144 posted a version of the meme to /r/wholesomememes using screenshots from The Mandalorian featuring Baby Yoda, garnering over 24,000 upvotes in roughly two years (shown below). That day the meme was reposted to Instagram by @memezar, garnering over 506,000 likes in the same span of time.

The meme has continued to inspire new variants two years later across social media platforms. For example, on February 21st, 2021, Redditor u/Royalty513 posted a Jujutsu Kaisen meme tp /r/JuJutsuKaisen using the format, garnering over 8,000 upvotes in three months (shown below, left). On April 29th, u/SLakshmi357 posted a Genshin Impact themed version of the meme to /r/Genshin_Memepact, garnering over 10,000 upvotes in six days (shown below, right).