The saying “if you don’t love me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best” is part of a new Twitter meme. It started with photographs of popular K-pop singers, like Mingyu from the group Seventeen (below), and now it’s being used to compare photos of actors and make jokes.
https://twitter.com/creeperscult/status/979365035758809089
The format for this meme is simple: post two photos side by side with the text “if you don’t love me at my” to describe the first photo, and “then you don’t deserve me at my” to describe the second photo. Worst and best are implied through the photographs in the meme. But the photos don’t necessarily need to illustrate a best/worst comparison to work in this meme. You can do a comparison between a glass of water versus Ice Cube, for example:
if you then you
— Sarah Suzuki Harvard (@sarahamyharvard) April 4, 2018
don’t love don’t deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/lzTfgx1D3z
Anything that shows an upgrade from the left photo to the right photo works. Like Michael B. Jordan going from Fantastic Four to Black Panther:
https://twitter.com/khristen/status/981182175209979905
Or a Pokémon transformation:
if you then you don’t
— Jimmy Wong (@jfwong) April 3, 2018
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/7yqXtkWUk9
Here are some other great “if you don’t love me at my” memes:
if you then you don’t
— Max Grossman (@GrossmanMax) April 3, 2018
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/wUjbj4xHZl
if you then you don’t
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) April 3, 2018
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/F66S4ZzG6u
if you then you don’t
— Tori Jeanine (@torijeanine) April 3, 2018
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/rRE2y0qHiL
https://twitter.com/deadlostboy/status/981227766841593859
if you then you don’t
— 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘪. ⚤ (@LumosSmile) April 3, 2018
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/1cGV0DjjBS
if you then you don’t
— yalc (@yalcxq) April 3, 2018
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/g9Ww0LZYOG
Even Netflix participated in the meme with this Hercules entry:
if you then you
— Netflix (@netflix) April 3, 2018
don’t love don’t deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/OS42OvGN0g
And this person had a great comeback to that:
https://twitter.com/jeffreyremick/status/981229076718514178
This meme seems like it could go on forever. Who doesn’t have an old photo, or awkward stage of life, that they’d like to forget?