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Girls Vs Boys

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Published August 1, 2026

Girls Vs Boys is a genre of comparison memes that pits stereotyped boy behavior against stereotyped girl behavior, usually in a two-panel side-by-side layout. The trope picked up real steam in late 2018 as ironic shitposts on Reddit and Instagram, then kept mutating through formats like Boys Locker Room, Soyjaks vs. Chads, and Boys Lunch Table.

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Overview

Girls Vs Boys, also known as Women vs. Men and Boys Are Quirky, is a genre of memes built around humorous comparisons of how boys and girls supposedly act in the same everyday scenario3. The format usually shows two panels side by side, with the girls' side played straight and the boys' side pushed into absurd, gross-out, or shitpost territory.

The genre covers many sub-formats rather than a single image, from classroom jokes to locker room screenshots to lunch table setups3. What ties them together is the ironic edge that took over in late 2018, where creators mocked the earnest gender-comparison posts that had been circulating on meme pages for years1.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit / Instagram (ironic spread), Twitter (Boys Locker Room sub-format)
Date
2018

Non-ironic versions of the Girls Vs Boys joke had been floating around the internet since before August 2017, but the trope gained real presence in late 2018 as ironic shitposts on Reddit and Instagram, especially through the "When Teacher Says to Get Out of Class" format3.

The Boys Locker Room sub-format, which pushed the genre into mainstream Reddit visibility, was posted on April 3, 2019 by Russian Twitter user @one_dead_world1. Russian social media users parodied the tweet over the following weeks before it hit English-language Reddit.

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How It Spread

The Boys Locker Room format broke into mainstream Reddit after a viral /r/dankmemes post by user Sloppy_Tommy on May 24, 20192. About a month later, on June 21, 2019, Redditor Yun-Grape420 reposted the first viral meme built on the joke, pulling over 10,700 upvotes in two months8.

More sub-variations kept landing through the summer. On August 10, 2019, Redditor XXXNASTECION posted a "How Many Layers do you have?" version to /r/dankmemes that pulled over 88,200 upvotes in three weeks4. Five days later, Teh_Crispiest_Bacon posted a Bromance edit to the same subreddit, hitting 29,400 upvotes in two weeks7. A Press Y to Shame version by Khrime followed on September 18, 2019, adding another 29,000 upvotes3.

Pushback showed up quickly. On January 15, 2020, the subreddit /r/boysarequirky was created specifically to mock Girls Vs Boys posts, pulling in over 2,500 subscribers within seven months5. Later waves included Soyjaks vs. Chads-styled entries in summer 2020 and the Boys Lunch Table sub-variant, first posted to YouTube by the account MEMES 4U on October 27, 2019, which grew in popularity on TikTok in September 20226.

How to Use This Meme

Girls Vs Boys memes typically use a two-panel side-by-side layout. The girls' side is played straight, and the boys' side is exaggerated into something absurd, chaotic, or intentionally cringe. Creators often swap in different visual bases (Soyjaks vs. Chads templates, lunch table photos, classroom screenshots, locker room shots) while keeping the same compare-and-contrast joke structure3.

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