if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/uCUNL3T1um— Kyle MacLachlan (@Kyle_MacLachlan) April 6, 2018
“If you don’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best” is a phrase you’ve probably seen on the Facebook wall of your most insufferable relative, whose insufferability is so ubiquitous that you can’t tell the difference between their worst and their best anyway. That stock phrase has taken on a new meaning over the past week, as Twitter users have decided to do their own ironic take on the sentiment.
Although many funny ones can’t be embedded here (like this one and this one), we’ve put together thirty examplars of the form. Along with the Twin Peaks reference shared by Kyle MacLachlan above, there were more references to Twin Peaks and other memorable TV shows:
t’nod uoy neht uoy fi
evresed evol t’nod
ym ta em ym ta em pic.twitter.com/3rErPtWhgG— Minovsky (@MinovskyArticle) April 9, 2018
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/rRE2y0qHiL— Tori Jeanine (@torijeanine) April 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/mtorino75/status/981630715845664769
if you can’t then you don’t
handle me deserve me
at my at my pic.twitter.com/XWDScTk2P9— k (@whereskayleigh) April 4, 2018
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/4CABNRevkl— Lauren 🥯 (@laurenleti) April 4, 2018
Other celebrities besides Kyle MacLachlan did their own spin on the joke:
If you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/pvDwOOvJsM— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) April 8, 2018
If you You don't
don't love deserve me
me at my at my
@HamillHimself pic.twitter.com/1IewWil8s0— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) April 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/981891465595908096
enough already we don’t love you at your that or at your this
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 6, 2018
Many of the jokes referenced movies:
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/drdghdMVXt— 🎥 Adam Hlaváč 💿 (@adamhlavac) April 4, 2018
If you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/91ZiZ02RhK— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) April 4, 2018
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/euMc8rBwVg— Sam Montgomery (@sammontgomery) April 6, 2018
If you durn’t Then you durn’t
lurve me dursurve me
at mur at mur pic.twitter.com/ByalKWeJYo— Aaron Eisenberg (@Eisentweet) April 6, 2018
Marvel movie references were especially popular, although some people need to answer for besmirching The Meteor Man (1993).
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/5R5nAGk52J— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) April 4, 2018
if you then you
cant handle cant handle
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/gsgePlut9R— “itinerant amuser” Jake Young (@BestJakeYoung) April 4, 2018
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/IGsqhiYlmK— Fandango (@Fandango) April 4, 2018
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/kokNZqgfOh— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) April 4, 2018
A few of the jokes went in unexpected directions, sometimes with surprisingly timely Fleetwood Mac references:
If you You will
don't love me never love me
now again pic.twitter.com/zFg8CpW6t2— Todd in the Shadows (@ShadowTodd) April 5, 2018
If you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/TI95WBERnC— Mary Kobayashi (@MaryKoCo) April 4, 2018
if you then you
don’t trust didn't deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/ejZXchsmyO— Gary Erskine (@garyerskine) April 5, 2018
A large number of the jokes were making fun of people’s inability to get the formatting right:
if you don't then you
love me ah crapis this even Lined up right
fuck it whatever
send— chuuch (@ch000ch) April 7, 2018
If you don't want me at my you don't want me, you don't deserve me at my you don't deserve me.
— Emma Bolden (@emmabo) April 6, 2018
If you don't love me. At my
How do I get the. Then you dont
Text to look. Help this doewnt
Right. Send tweet pic.twitter.com/ADG8tH1q1m— Octo (@Octopimp) April 4, 2018
we’re doing great everyone pic.twitter.com/i3dSdZUxdY
— Alita: Battle Angel stan account (@punished_picnic) April 4, 2018
Meanwhile, some people just found this meme-filled week to be a little exhausting.
Me trying to keep up with this week’s meme cycle pic.twitter.com/59GpWkIl6o
— Fran Zaya, no the other one (@salmattos) April 5, 2018
And it wouldn’t be Twitter unless people made jokes about being depressed that would be considered a cry for help in any other social media format.
if you can’t then that makes
handle me two of us— ceeks (@70Ceeks) April 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/sosadtoday/status/983174546596380672
if you can't handle me at my depression
then you don’t deserve me at my SURPRISE! it's anxiety now— Aparna Nancherla 🇵🇸 (@aparnapkin) April 5, 2018
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my
lack of basic no actually
human emotions you made
the right call— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) April 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/981720829691129856
(Hat tip to Dorkly)