How About 8 Inches and Thick? — Three-panel composite of a beach interview with a blonde woman and a muscular shirtless man being interviewed with a microphone

How About 8 Inches and Thick?

2023viral videosemi-active

Published October 27, 2026

A 2023 beach interview on South Padre Island, Texas captured a muscular stranger responding to a woman's dismissal with the retort, "How about multi-millionaires? How about eight inches and thick?" before unloading grief about his late wife and daughter. By mid-2023, X reposts of the clip were pulling tens of millions of views, and the monologue circulated as a copypasta into 2024.

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Overview

The clip plays as a quick heel turn. Interviewer Israel Padilla asks two women on the beach whether they like bodybuilders, one answers that she prefers "skinny, scrawny guys," and the muscular man standing next to her fires back, "How about multi-millionaires? How about eight inches and thick?" before pivoting into unsolicited grief about his wife's death and his daughter's recent suicide1.

Most online use leans on the whiplash between the boast and the trauma dump. Screenshots of the man mid-monologue get pasted over tweets about rejection or being single, and the full quote gets copy-pasted as a reply, treated as a copypasta rather than a sincere statement2. The reaction wave also pulled in the crying Wojak mask template as a quote-tweet reply3.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (source) / X (viral spread)
Creator
Israel Padilla
Date
2023

On March 28th, 2023, YouTuber Israel Padilla uploaded "How big do you prefer it?" to his channel, a street-style segment filmed on the beach at South Padre Island, Texas during what was likely spring break1. The exchange with the bodybuilder and the two women sits at the opening of the video, which collected roughly 445,300 YouTube views across its first year1.

Padilla also posted the clip to TikTok, where it went viral before he deleted it, and Redditor BlackFEMTO re-uploaded the TikTok rip to r/IAmTheMainCharacter on March 25th, 2023, which gathered more than 5,000 upvotes within a year42.

How It Spread

The video's first big X push came on May 15th, 2023, when @mmamarcuss reposted the footage with the caption "this dude hates skinny dudes," a post that gathered more than 5.1 million views and 8,900 likes over the following year5.

On July 30th, 2023, @PicturesFoIder reposted the clip again, this time racking up more than 22 million views and 116,000 likes over ten months6. @LegenDarrenX replied to that thread the same day with a crying Wojak mask image, picking up over 17,000 likes3. The format kept getting pulled into dating-discourse tweets into the next year, including a May 17th, 2024 quote tweet from @MulhollandL0ver that jokes about the man getting "curved" and then trauma dumping, which took over 31,000 likes within a year7.

In 2024, screenshot reuse carried the bit further. On March 29th, 2024, @sabatonfan69 posted a quote with a still of the bodybuilder attached to a "reasons why I'm single" setup, gaining over 1,600 likes in three months8.

Timeline

2023-03-25

Redditor BlackFEMTO reposts the deleted TikTok cut to r/IAmTheMainCharacter, where it collects more than 5,000 upvotes.

2023-03-28

Israel Padilla uploads the full "How big do you prefer it?" interview to YouTube.

2023-05-15

@mmamarcuss reposts the clip to X with the caption "this dude hates skinny dudes," collecting over 5.1 million views.

2023-07-30

@PicturesFoIder's X repost tops 22 million views, and @LegenDarrenX replies with a crying Wojak mask image.

2024-03-29

@sabatonfan69 attaches a screenshot of the bodybuilder to a "reasons why I'm single" tweet.

2024-05-17

@MulhollandL0ver's quote-tweet joke about getting "curved" and trauma dumping gathers over 31,000 likes.

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How to Use This Meme

Posters typically pair a screenshot of the man mid-sentence with a setup tweet about rejection, dating, or being told they are not someone's type, letting the "eight inches and thick" retort act as the punchline. A common convention is to drop the full monologue as a reply copypasta so the trauma-dumping tail lands after the boast2.

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