Hearing The Key In The Door Every Evening Was My Own “Afghanistan” — Armed Taliban fighters in a mountainous landscape with the original Porkchop_EXP tweet

Hearing The Key In The Door Every Evening Was My Own “Afghanistan”

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Published October 15, 2026

On August 15, 2021, as the Taliban swept into Kabul, Twitter user @Porkchop_EXP posted that she could not care about Afghanistan because her alcoholic father's keys in the door had been her own 'Afghanistan' for almost 20 years. She deleted the tweet within hours, but screenshots turned the final line into a copypasta that users applied to Geronimo the alpaca and later the 2022 assassination of Shinzo Abe.

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Overview

Twitter users turned the final line of the deleted tweet into a phrasal template by preserving almost all of the original wording and only replacing 'Afghanistan' with whatever current event or minor inconvenience they wanted to mock-dismiss3. The humor works through the contrast between a serious world news story and a dramatized personal grievance delivered in therapy-speak, which lets posters joke that they care more about trivial problems than global ones. A typical post reads like a short monologue that opens with 'Sorry, not sorry' and ends with 'was my own [X] for almost 20 years,' often with no additional commentary attached1.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter
Creator
@Porkchop_EXP
Date
2021

On August 15, 2021, during the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, Twitter user @Porkchop_EXP wrote, 'Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about Afghanistan because I grew up with an alcoholic, psychologically abusive father in constant state of distress, anxiety and worry about the future. Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own Afghanistan for almost 20 years'1. @Porkchop_EXP deleted the tweet shortly after posting it, though archived screenshots still circulate online3.

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How It Spread

Four days after the deletion, on August 19, 2021, Twitter user @catsfeettowel posted the first well-known variant in response to the UK euthanasia of Geronimo the alpaca, earning over 670 likes within a year2. On September 13, 2021, @ramzreboot posted another version aimed at the Nicki Minaj cousin's friend's balls story, which gathered over 50 likes4. User @MOMMYBIGDICK revived the copypasta repeatedly in 2022, with a July 8 post about the assassination of Shinzo Abe reaching over 15,000 likes in four months5. Her November 17, 2022 post about the rumored Twitter shutdown under Elon Musk did even better, collecting around 40,000 likes in five days6.

Timeline

2021-08-15

@Porkchop_EXP posts the original tweet during the Taliban offensive, then deletes it within hours[1].

2021-08-19

@catsfeettowel posts the first widely shared variant about Geronimo the alpaca[2].

2021-09-13

@ramzreboot posts a version aimed at the Nicki Minaj cousin's friend's balls story[4].

2022-07-08

@MOMMYBIGDICK posts a version about the Shinzo Abe assassination that reaches 15,000 likes[5].

2022-11-17

@MOMMYBIGDICK posts a version about the rumored Twitter shutdown that reaches 40,000 likes in five days[6].

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How to Use This Meme

People typically copy the wording of @Porkchop_EXP's second sentence verbatim and insert any news item or petty frustration where 'Afghanistan' appeared. The common convention is to post it as a straight-faced reply to a trending story, letting the overwrought therapy framing do the comedic work2.

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