Girls Who Say Bruh vs. Girls Who Say Hiii — Shrek the Third scene with Fiona and princesses including the masculine-featured stepsister in a purple dress

Girls Who Say Bruh vs. Girls Who Say Hiii

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Published November 11, 2026

Girls Who Say Bruh vs. Girls Who Say Hiii is a two-panel comparison format that pairs a cutesy woman with a brash one. It began as a Spanish-language Facebook meme in July 2018 that lined up Disney princesses against the Shrek princesses, then reached Twitter in English about a month later. By April 2020, users were swapping in two photos of Greta Gerwig as both sides.

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Overview

The format works through binary comparison. One image shows a woman coded as feminine or soft-spoken, labeled "girls who say hiiii," while the other shows a woman coded as rough or masculine, labeled "girls who say bruh"1. The slang contrast carries the whole joke, with "hiii" extended for cutesy emphasis and "bruh" standing in for a fuller slang register including "dawg" and "wassup"7.

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Most Girls Who Say Bruh vs. Girls Who Say Hiii posts keep the two-panel template but swap the visual subjects3. Early Spanish-language versions paired the Ralph Breaks the Internet princess lineup with the Shrek princesses Fiona and Doris1. Later versions borrowed from gaming and fantasy franchises like The Witcher6 and Dark Souls11, while the April 2020 Twitter revival recentered the format on real photos of actress Greta Gerwig8.

Origin & Background

Platform
Facebook (OkChicas) / Twitter (viral spread)
Date
2018

On July 26, 2018, Facebook meme group OkChicas posted a two-panel Spanish meme contrasting women who spoke "sweetly" with women who used slurs and slang1. The groups were likened respectively to the Disney princesses from Ralph Breaks the Internet and to Fiona, Doris and other princesses from the Shrek films3. That post gathered more than 17,000 reactions and 9,000 shares within two years1.

Within days, other Facebook meme pages reposted the image, including a cropped version shared by the group Chochos on July 29, 201810. An unknown user then produced an English translation, which the VK group eternal classic rehosted on August 25, 20189.

How It Spread

Twitter user @bapeheely reposted the translated version on August 29, 2018, earning over 4,200 retweets and 11,300 likes2. A follow-up repost the next day by @gradeint did better still, reaching over 14,700 retweets and 54,500 likes4. On October 22, 2018, iFunny user Temper posted the earliest known derivative of the Girls Who Say Bruh vs. Girls Who Say Hiii template, swapping one caption with the other5.

Activity cooled until summer 2019, when Facebook meme groups began fitting the template to gaming fandoms. Tabby Foczka's Witcher version on June 3, 2019 drew over 580 likes6, and a Dark Souls entry by Pavlína Chrastná followed on June 28, 201911. The format returned to Twitter on March 10, 2020, when @Whereisblockaye attached the "bruh, nigga, dawg, wassup" caption to a clip of a muscular woman dancing, reaching over 99,900 likes and 2.6 million views within two months7.

On April 12, 2020, @offbrandwagner paired two photos of Greta Gerwig as the "hiiii" and "bruh" sides, collecting over 118,300 likes and prompting a surge of new posts on Twitter8.

Timeline

2018-07-26

Facebook group OkChicas posts the original Spanish-language two-panel meme comparing the Ralph Breaks the Internet princesses with the Shrek princesses.

2018-07-29

Facebook meme group Chochos reposts a cropped version, pushing the format further through Spanish-language meme pages.

2018-08-25

VK group eternal classic rehosts an English translation of the meme after an unknown Facebook user translated it.

2018-08-29

Twitter user @bapeheely reposts the English translation, drawing over 4,200 retweets.

2018-10-22

IFunny user Temper posts the earliest known caption-swap derivative of the format.

2019-06-03

Facebook user Tabby Foczka adapts the template to a Witcher version, starting a wavelet of gaming-fandom entries.

2020-03-10

Twitter user @Whereisblockaye applies the "bruh, nigga, dawg, wassup" caption to a dancing video clip that reaches 2.6 million views.

2020-04-12

Twitter user @offbrandwagner posts two photos of Greta Gerwig as the "hiiii" and "bruh" sides, kicking off a late-2020 revival.

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