# Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting In October 2017, Twitter user @ashcammm posted a venting tweet reading "Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting." Within weeks the sentence was hijacked as a caption template, paired with pictures of pizza, obscure maps and sports jerseys, and grew into one of the defining bait-and-switch formats of late 2017. ## Origin The template began on October 22nd, 2017, when Twitter user @ashcammm posted the standalone complaint "Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting"[1]. The tweet was not written as a joke and the account was later locked, but the phrasing was distinctive enough that other users started quote-replying it with absurd counterexamples. The earliest joke reply came from @allenpwilliams[2], who wrote "I mean I can see why you would say that but pizza is fucking good," collecting 14 likes. That single response set the pattern every later edit followed: agree with the premise, then reveal the "one thing" is something harmless. - **Platform:** Twitter (viral spread on Reddit and Funnyjunk) - **Creator:** @ashcammm - **Date:** 2017 ## Overview Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting is a bait-and-switch caption format built entirely on a single tweet from October 2017[1]. The joke works by pairing the accusatory line, which reads as a complaint about men chasing sex, with an image of something completely mundane the poster is admitting to wanting instead. The gap between the outraged tone and the goofy reveal is the entire punchline. The image half of the format is wide open. Early versions swapped in a slice of pizza[2], a stylized ethnic-nationalist map, or a woman wearing a jazz-themed sweatshirt[3]. Later riffs reached for whatever the poster found funny to confess a craving for, from niche fandom merchandise to obscure historical trivia. The caption itself is almost always kept verbatim, since the recognizable phrasing is what sells the setup[4]. ## How It Spread For roughly two weeks the tweet mostly drew hostile replies aimed at @ashcammm rather than jokes[1]. The remix format only took hold at the end of October. On October 31st, 2017, @kaiserwillemii swapped in a map of "True Serbia," turning the caption into an irredentist gag[3]. Days later on November 2nd, @willbrooks1989 posted a version featuring a woman in a sweatshirt reading "Jazz"[4], and the joke started jumping accounts on Twitter at scale. The format left Twitter about a week into November. On November 6th, 2017, Redditor jordan460 posted a variation to r/MemeEconomy that pulled in over 14,000 upvotes[5], effectively signalling to the subreddit's meme-trading community that the template was live. The same day, an edit crossposted to Funnyjunk cleared nearly 1,000 points inside 24 hours[6], marking the point where the joke was no longer a Twitter-only in-joke. After that November burst the caption settled into permanent rotation as a reusable reaction template, still pulled out whenever someone wants to fake-confess a craving with maximum melodrama[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting? It is a bait-and-switch caption meme that pairs a 2017 complaint tweet about men with an image of some harmless thing the poster is really craving[1]. ### Where did Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting come from? Twitter user @ashcammm posted the original line on October 22nd, 2017, and other users started remixing it with absurd images[1]. ### What does Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting mean? In meme form the phrase is used ironically, with the "one thing" turning out to be pizza, a map, a jersey or any other silly reveal instead of sex[2][3]. ### How do you use Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting? You typically keep the caption exactly as written and attach an image of the harmless object you want to jokingly confess to craving, following the pattern set by @allenpwilliams's pizza reply[2]. ### Is Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting still popular? The format peaked in November 2017 across Twitter, r/MemeEconomy and Funnyjunk and is still recycled as a classic bait-and-switch caption template[5][6]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/ashcammm]() 2. [https://twitter.com/allenpwilliams]() 3. [https://twitter.com/kaiserwillemii]() 4. [https://twitter.com/willbrooks1989]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/]() 6. [https://funnyjunk.com/]() 7. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/guys-literally-only-want-one-thing-and-its-fucking-disgusting]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/guys-literally-only-want-one-thing-and-its-fucking-disgusting Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library