Leaving My Body | Know Your Meme

About

Leaving My Body refers to a snowclone popular on Twitter paired with a stock image of a human soul. The snowclone reads, “My X leaving my body when Y.” It is usually is used to mock useless advice.

Origin

On December 16th, 2020, Twitter user @KingCrustacean posted a tweet that read “The ADHD leaving my body when my mom tells me to “Get a planner”,” gaining over 29,000 retweets and 289,000 likes (shown below). The tweet used a stock photo “Rendered illustration of the soul.”

Spread

The format trended on Twitter over the following several days as multiple users made similar jokes about unhelpful advice. For example, Twitter user @lorazepamfam tweeted, “the BPD leaving my body when someone tells me “we all get that way sometimes”,” gaining over 120 retweets and 520 likes (shown below, left). User @joshh_mcp tweeted, “depression leaving my body after someone tells me to breathe some fresh air” (shown below, right).

A common variation on the meme found people writing “My atheism leaving my body” in situations of desperate need. For example, user @ufobri tweeted, “the atheism leaving my body when i think there’s a demon haunting my room,” gaining over 240 retweets and 2,400 likes (shown below, left). User @chuckfug made a Super Smash Brothers reference with the format, gaining over 60 retweets and 950 likes (shown below, right).

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