Memes are a medium to express oneself in the online world in a better manner as compared to merely text. What’s more, it is easy to add humour through memes but some caution should be practiced while creating memes as they can hurt someone’s sentiments too.
Leyton Mokgerepi, a person from South Africa’s Midrand, body-shamed a curvy model in an attempt of adding some humour to his post but he got an awesome reply from the same girl.
His tweet featured a petite model and a plus-size model and the caption read, “Girls that I like vs Girls that like me!”
Here is the tweet:
https://twitter.com/imleyton/status/910190821881913344
Twitterati soon reacted by trolling the man and here are few tweets:
Epic insult:
https://twitter.com/ItnHmn/status/910256831750135809
And this is YOU:
https://twitter.com/tataswimmer/status/910240761509236737
Here are the girls who actually like you 😀
Girls that actually like you pic.twitter.com/CggajJQycs
— allykat (@allysonhartwig) September 20, 2017
However, there were some who supported the man by saying that it’s his personal preference:
https://twitter.com/Grandpa_Benny/status/910262570581467136
https://twitter.com/Matthewralston/status/910279687066214400
His tweet went viral with more than 5,000 likes and 1,700 Retweets.
Lesego Legobane, the same plus-size model who was featured in the meme, also saw it and gave a kickass reply. She wrote, “I don’t like you!”.
I don't like you https://t.co/91TJ5xypV8
— thickleeyonce (@ThickLeeyonce) September 19, 2017
This was a perfect reply from Lesego Legobane and to her surprise, her tweet was retweeted for more than 280,000 times and received 887,000 likes.
She not only got the support of other Twitter users but celebrities like Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj also encouraged her by liking her tweet:
Ariana Grande liked my tweet! I'm screaming!! pic.twitter.com/ozC9vUGoGB
— thickleeyonce (@ThickLeeyonce) September 20, 2017
Leyton was trolled by Joëlle Kayembe also, the other model in the meme. She tweeted, “As if the world needed another example of an obnoxious @$$.”
As if the world needed another example of an obnoxious ass' 🙄 https://t.co/77WA0OFGfs
— Joëlle Kayembe Hagen (@j4joelle) September 20, 2017
Leyton tried to control the damage by tweeting another meme, the caption of which was “Girlfriend Goals”; however, things were out of control by then.
https://twitter.com/imleyton/status/910221350559780869
Well, that was a nice roast and we hope that others will take a lesson from this episode!
