Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Worm?

About

Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Worm? is a cliché question girlfriends ask their boyfriends to gauge how much they really love them outside of their physicality. The question became memeworthy due to its nonsensical nature, as well as its remixability as a phrasal template. It originates from a viral tweet in 2019 and spread to Facebook and TikTok. On Halloween day in 2022, Heidi Klum's worm costume from her annual Hallowe'en Party caused a resurgence in the meme as people online referenced it alongside the pop culture discussion.

Origin

On June 7th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user shutyourhell posted a tweet that outlined an imagined conversation between her and her husband at 3 A.M. She starts off crying, prompting the husband to pry at what's wrong, ultimately being, "idk i just feel like if we were born as worms u wouldn’t like me .. would u even marry me ? whatever just forget it …" Over the course of three years, the tweet received roughly 34,200 likes (shown, below, left). On June 26th, 2019, Twitter^[2] user shutyourhell posted another tweet reading, "would u guys still like me if i was a worm .. ? idk i feel like u wouldn’t .. whatever … just forget it .." earning roughly 18,600 likes in three years (shown below, right).

Spread

On July 3rd, 2019, Twitter^[3] user grovndzero created a two-panel comic using the premise of shutyourhell's tweet, captioning it, "oh worm," and earning roughly 12,000 likes over the course of three years (shown below).

The question continued to be referenced in tweets going into 2020. They started to more specifically relate the question to an annoying question that a girlfriend would ask her boyfriend. On April 12th, 2020, Twitter^[4] user princesssmeera was the first to do so, tweeting, "I want a boyfriend so I can ask him dumb shit like 'Would you still love me if I was a worm?'" and earning roughly 1,500 likes in two years (shown below, top). On April 22nd, 2020, Twitter^[5] user DeeGBP posted a quote retweet with a video of a guy screaming "No!" captioning it with the worm question and earning roughly 53,600 likes in two years (shown below, bottom).

“Would you still love me if I was a worm?” https://t.co/tx4ezKJawo

— Gustavo Fring (@DeeGBP) April 23, 2020

On May 14th, 2020, the Instagram ^[6] page and illustrator amii.illustrates posted a comic about the meme, earning over 840 likes in two years (shown below, left). On May 5th, 2020, TikToker^[7] ninzzx asked her mom if she would still love her of she was a worm in a video that earned roughly 10.8 million plays and 2.4 million likes in two years (shown below, right).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6823345747145018629

Going into 2021 and 2022, the worm question became increasingly prominent on TikTok, resulting in creators substituting in different animals or nouns at its end. For instance, on April 24th, 2021, TikToker^[8] ailaughatmyownjokes asked her boyfriend if he'd still love her if she was a tank, earning roughly 14.4 million plays and 2.6 million likes in 14 months (shown below, left). On May 16th, 2021, TikToker^[9] taetoowavy posted a skit of him reacting to his girlfriend saying if she was a cockroach would he still love her, earning roughly 6.2 million plays and 1.4 million likes in one year (shown below, right).

The meme surfaced again on Twitter^[10] in April 2022 as well as on TikTok.^[11]

Various Examples

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7031709997411093807

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7080662196669238570

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7090365714988715310

Related Memes

Heidi Klum's Worm Costume

Heidi Klum's Worm Costume refers to multiple image macros, viral videos and other discussions of actress Heidi Klum's 2022 Halloween costume that was a giant worm suit. The creepy, hyper-realistic costume was photographed on the red carpet of Klum's Hallowe'en Party in October 2022 and soon landed on Twitter where it was paired with various captions in subsequent memes. Additionally, the costume caused a resurgence in references to the Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Worm? meme.

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