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Twitter Users Put A Sarcastic Spin On The Saying, ‘If You Don’t Love Me At My Worst…’

“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:

https://twitter.com/mtorino75/status/981630715845664769

Other celebrities besides Kyle MacLachlan did their own spin on the joke:

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/981891465595908096

Many of the jokes referenced movies:

Marvel movie references were especially popular, although some people need to answer for besmirching The Meteor Man (1993).

A few of the jokes went in unexpected directions, sometimes with surprisingly timely Fleetwood Mac references:

A large number of the jokes were making fun of people’s inability to get the formatting right:

Meanwhile, some people just found this meme-filled week to be a little exhausting.

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.

https://twitter.com/sosadtoday/status/983174546596380672

https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/981720829691129856

(Hat tip to Dorkly)