The She's So Crazy Love Her meme (aka the Can't Take Her Anywhere meme, and She's so crazzzzzzzy! Love Her!!!) is a photo of a woman with a bag of chips balanced on her head, parodying women posting about doing something "crazy" when arguably they are not being crazy at all; they are actually acting tame and cringe.
What is the meaning of ‘She's So Crazy Love Her?"
'She's So Crazzzzzzzy Love Her' is a caption on a viral image of a woman posing in a grocery store freezer aisle with peace signs and duck lips. Balanced on her head is a bag of potato chips. To many, the image represents a typical white girl trying to differentiate herself from predominant white cultural norms; the caption indicates the woman in the photo is "crazy" for doing something that is the opposite: benignly bizarre (the chips), fairly tame (duck face, peace signs) and overall cringe.
But in recent times it has come full circle as people embrace the woman's earnest silliness, and recall a different, more innocent time on the internet.
Meme basics:
- Meme creator: https://i-peed-so-hard-i-laughed.tumblr.com/
- Meme type: humor, ironic
- First appearance: March 14th, 2014
- Origin source: Tumblr (from Facebook)
- Used to convey: satire, social commentary, cringe
- Peak popularity: Oct. 27th, 2024
Origin and spread
First posted by user i-peed-so-hard-i-laughed to Tumblr in March of 2014, the original image is an old screenshot taken from a Facebook post from a woman named Abigail taken of a woman named Robyn, and originally captioned "she's so crazzzzzzzy! Love her!!!"
The image and caption inspired a wealth of recreations of people with food and chip bags on their heads, acting "crazy."
On Oct. 26, 2024, user @lovelysewer posted a photo of herself as the meme for her Halloween costume. The post garnered nearly 300,000 likes in two days.
Another X user @Yaoibunga excitedly posted that they recognized @Lovelysewer at a local Halloween party, and (ironically) though nobody else did, the post garnered over 22.6 million views and plenty of appreciation via comments.
"i would've recognized her among thousands… millions…" wrote @superdanvers in a quote retweet on Oct. 27, 2024.
On Nov. 20, 2024, actor and comedian D'Arcy Carden replied to a version of the meme reading, "when is the look-alike contest for her?" referencing the explosion of lookalike contests following the success of Timothee Chalamet's.
"When and were," she wrote.
Meme variations
The 'She's So Crazy Love Her' meme spun into even more variations, including the 'Can't Take Her Anywhere Meme,' also a commentary on white women acting "crazy" but actually not being that crazy, and the the inverse of its original, 'She's So Normal Hate Her' meme, leaning into the reality of the non-weirdness present in the original meme.
The 'She's So Gone Miss Her' meme, a natural heightening of the meme's humor, photoshopped the original subject of the photo out completely, leaving just the grocery store freezer aisle.
And a Rolling Stone photoshoot from Nov. 18, 2024, featured actor Timothée Chalamet as the cover star. The shoot included "goofy" poses and faces from Chalamet, leading to his being Photoshopped into the 'She's So Crazy Love Her' meme.
Cultural context
These memes are riffs on white women trying to act "interesting," "cool," or "crazy," feeding into the obsolete and ridiculous nature of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl concept coined and popularized in the late aughts. That being said, many users lack self-awareness when they express themselves via social media, leaving them as easy fodder for ridicule and all sorts of ironic online commentary.
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