# Girls Vs Boys 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. ## 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 scenario[3]. 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 setups[3]. 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 years[1]. ## 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, 2019[2]. 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 months[8]. 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 weeks[4]. Five days later, Teh_Crispiest_Bacon posted a Bromance edit to the same subreddit, hitting 29,400 upvotes in two weeks[7]. A Press Y to Shame version by Khrime followed on September 18, 2019, adding another 29,000 upvotes[3]. 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 months[5]. 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 2022[6]. ## How to Use 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 structure[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Girls Vs Boys? Girls Vs Boys is a genre of comparison memes that contrasts the supposed behaviors of boys and girls in the same scenario, usually in a two-panel image format[3]. ### Where did Girls Vs Boys come from? Non-ironic versions existed before August 2017, but the trope broke through in late 2018 as ironic shitposts on Reddit and Instagram[3]. The Boys Locker Room sub-format was posted by Russian Twitter user @one_dead_world on April 3, 2019[1]. ### What does Girls Vs Boys mean? The meme sets up a stereotyped girls' reaction against a boys' reaction pushed into absurd or shitpost territory, mocking earnest gender-comparison posts rather than making a sincere point[3]. ### How do you use Girls Vs Boys? Post a two-panel side-by-side edit, one panel labeled girls and the other boys, and let the boys side go over the top. Sub-formats like Boys Locker Room, Soyjaks vs. Chads, and Boys Lunch Table use the same structure[4]. ### Is Girls Vs Boys still popular? The genre had major waves through 2019 and 2020 on Reddit and later resurged with Boys Lunch Table on TikTok in September 2022[6]. It is treated as a classic meme format rather than a currently trending one. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/one_dead_world]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/girls-vs-boys]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/cofurw/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/boysarequirky/]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/cqsrfw/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/user/Yun-Grape420/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/girls-vs-boys Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library