# Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies are photoshops of Drake's September 2021 album cover, which artist Damien Hirst designed using 12 Pregnant Woman Emojis in rows of four. Within hours of Drake's August 30th, 2021 Instagram reveal, Lil Nas X, Twitter users and Instagram pages swapped the emojis for Among Us crewmates, Android pregnant icons and pregnant fictional men ahead of the September 3rd release. ## Origin On August 30th, 2021, Drake posted the cover for his album Certified Lover Boy on Instagram, four days ahead of its September 3rd release[4]. The artwork, designed by British artist Damien Hirst, places 12 Pregnant Woman Emojis with varied skin tones and sweater colors in three rows of four on a white background. Drake's announcement post gained more than 4.1 million likes in its first four days[4]. Parodies began the same day. Rapper Lil Nas X posted an edit swapping Hirst's figures for the Pregnant Man Emoji, scoring over 1.2 million likes within four days[5]. Twitter user @drac0srevenge posted another early edit captioned "android users when certified lover boy drops," using Android's blockier Pregnant Woman Emoji, which got over 55,000 likes and 8,000 retweets in the same window[1]. - **Platform:** Instagram / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown (parodies by Lil Nas X, @drac0srevenge, @fingees, @KiddTheArtist__ and others) - **Date:** 2021 ## Overview A typical Certified Lover Boy parody keeps the clean white background and the three-by-four grid from Damien Hirst's original design, then swaps the 12 Pregnant Woman Emojis for something absurd. Edits range from simple emoji substitutions, such as Android's chunkier pregnant icon[1], to full image replacements using game characters or scenes from other media[2]. The joke works on two levels. One is a reaction to Drake's cover itself, which many thought was ugly or random for a major hip-hop release[3]. The other is pure template humor: any group of 12 similar things can be slotted into Hirst's layout, which made the format easy to riff on in the days before and after the album's September 3rd, 2021 drop[3]. ## How It Spread Parody edits spread fastest on Instagram and Twitter in the three days between the reveal and the album's release[3]. Lil Nas X's Pregnant Man Emoji post was the most-liked early entry at over 1.2 million likes in four days[5], while @drac0srevenge's Android emoji version did the heaviest lifting on Twitter with 55,000-plus likes[1]. On August 31st, 2021, the format widened past emoji swaps. Instagram page @fingees replaced the pregnant figures with Among Us crewmates, gaining over 4,500 likes in three days[6]. The same day, Twitter user @KiddTheArtist__ posted a grid of pregnant male characters from various media franchises, playing off a running joke about the cover's maternal theme[2]. By the September 3rd release date, the Hirst grid had been reused as a general-purpose photoshop template[3]. ## How to Use Creators typically take the plain white Certified Lover Boy template, keep the three-by-four grid, and replace the 12 pregnant emojis with 12 copies of a different image. Common swaps include other emojis (Pregnant Man, Android versions), game characters such as Among Us crewmates[6], or a lineup of pregnant male fictional characters pulled from various franchises[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies? It is a photoshop format that edits Drake's 2021 Certified Lover Boy album cover, replacing the 12 Pregnant Woman Emojis designed by Damien Hirst with other emojis or images[3]. ### Where did Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies come from? The parodies began on August 30th, 2021, the day Drake revealed the cover on Instagram four days before the album's September 3rd release[4]. ### What does Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies mean? The edits poke fun at Drake and Hirst's unusual choice of 12 pregnant emojis for a major hip-hop album cover, with each parody swapping in a different set of 12 subjects[3]. ### How do you use Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies? Keep Hirst's white background and three-by-four grid, then drop in 12 copies of a chosen emoji or image, such as Among Us crewmates[6] or Android's Pregnant Woman Emoji[1]. ### Is Certified Lover Boy Cover Parodies still popular? Most of the activity clustered around the album's August 30th reveal and September 3rd, 2021 release, with Lil Nas X's edit alone passing 1.2 million likes within four days[5]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/drac0srevenge/status/1432414113272107016]() 2. [https://twitter.com/KiddTheArtist__/status/1432767516875575298]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/certified-lover-boy-cover-parodies]() 4. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CTMjLNnltPF/]() 5. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CTNUEIIJeWx/]() 6. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CTPg0DPsZ0Q/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/certified-lover-boy-cover-parodies Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library