The Truth about the Woah Luv British Girl Meme

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Published 2023-11-24
In late 2018, images and videos of YourGirlfriend22 began to be used as reaction memes on stan twitter and soon became viral, due to their hilarious snapchat captions. With an English accent and overusing the word "luv", the girl, unbeknownst to her, was soon crowned a British Meme Icon. However, the meme wasn't everything that it first seemed and the origins of the memes had many people thinking "I was like…woah luv…tha caugh me off guard."

Special thanks to ‪@evadentz‬ for helping me with the research for this video.
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Link to the Know Your Meme page , which was the starting point for my research: knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-was-likewoah-luv

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All Comments (21)
  • @ray-mc-l
    the fact that she isnt british is the greatest twist of all time.
  • Was so gagged she wasn’t British. I fully assumed she was from Essex.
  • @shawarma4life
    finding out she isnt british i was like.. woah luv... tha caugh me off guard
  • @Edward_Avila
    “Tweets using Jessica’s look around everybody on mute coded video-“ 😭😭😭😭 the way I ugly laughed
  • @darkgn0ll587
    It's so unfortunate that she just. looks. so. BRITISH. Your accent fits this perfectly! Loved this video!
  • @aprils1888
    If JiaFei can suddenly become real, then she can suddenly become Bri'ish
  • @simpleplanfan011
    It’s not hard to mistake her for British. She has major Leeds energy 🤣
  • @HolandaChiquita
    I love how people try and write words phonetically. It's even better to hear a native speaker pronounce them as they were intended.
  • @emoscreamhoe
    i thought people assumed she was british because of her make up. the foundation being a couple shades too dark, the concealer lips, the lashes, the heavily filled in brows. isn't there like a whole meme/running internet joke that that's how British teens/young women do their make up in certain areas?
  • @__ash_____
    Me after finding out Jessica isn't British: "I was like... woah luv... tha caugh me off guard"
  • @Eduardo-ib7vu
    I literally GASPED when you said she isnt actually british, this is history of the Internet, your videos will be shown in schools some day 😭👏😌
  • What caught me off guard is when I found out this girl was 19 like WHAT? That makeup makes her look 25 years older 😭
  • Please consider finding the backstory behind a meme that follows a similar pattern to the yourgirlfriend22 memes, except it’s just a single pic, a selfie that a woman took on a bus with the snapchat caption “so glad got that done. Nothing to worry about ever now”, there’s different variations with a range of filters on the woman but the caption stays the same. I have no idea if its origins are Irish Twitter or a different internet subculture but i don’t have sufficient answers.
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  • @flazada
    I luv that she ran with it instead of being butthurt
  • @sassycassyg
    My groupchat used to quote these memes incessantly. Saw the thumbnail and the words “woah luv..” SLAPPED me across the face. Thanks for the memories
  • @truthfullynick
    This girl went to an adjacent high school of mine in Overland park kansas back in like 2015. She showed up to our football game once and everyone was excited bc she was the girl who got pregnant in eighth grade. I've followed her ever since i was shocked she became a meme and is probably the most famous thing to come out of OP besides the most popular girls in school LOL