# How About 8 Inches and Thick? 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. ## Origin 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 break[1]. 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 year[1]. 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 year[4][2]. - **Platform:** YouTube (source) / X (viral spread) - **Creator:** Israel Padilla (filmmaker) - **Date:** 2023 ## 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 suicide[1]. 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 statement[2]. The reaction wave also pulled in the crying Wojak mask template as a quote-tweet reply[3]. ## 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 year[5]. On July 30th, 2023, @PicturesFoIder reposted the clip again, this time racking up more than 22 million views and 116,000 likes over ten months[6]. @LegenDarrenX replied to that thread the same day with a crying Wojak mask image, picking up over 17,000 likes[3]. 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 year[7]. 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 months[8]. ## How to Use 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 boast[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is How About 8 Inches and Thick?? It is a 2023 viral beach-interview clip in which a bodybuilder, told that a woman prefers "skinny, scrawny guys," answers "How about multi-millionaires? How about eight inches and thick?" and then starts talking about his dead wife and daughter[1]. The monologue also circulates as a copypasta[2]. ### Where did How About 8 Inches and Thick? come from? YouTuber Israel Padilla filmed the exchange on the beach at South Padre Island, Texas and uploaded it on March 28th, 2023 in a video titled "How big do you prefer it?"[1]. A TikTok cut was reposted to r/IAmTheMainCharacter three days earlier on March 25th by Redditor BlackFEMTO[4]. ### What does How About 8 Inches and Thick? mean? The quote reads as a flex-turned-overshare: the man counters rejection by listing "multi-millionaires" and "eight inches and thick" before pivoting into trauma dumping about recent family deaths[1]. Online, it gets used as a punchline about awkward dating comebacks[7]. ### How do you use How About 8 Inches and Thick?? Posters typically attach a screenshot of the bodybuilder to a tweet about rejection or being single, as in @sabatonfan69's March 29th, 2024 "reasons why I'm single" quote[8]. The full monologue is also pasted into replies as a copypasta[2]. ### Is How About 8 Inches and Thick? still popular? Usage was heaviest in 2023 through mid-2024, with @MulhollandL0ver's May 17th, 2024 quote pulling over 31,000 likes[7]. The clip is still referenced on X but no longer trending at its 2023 peak[6]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUBZzevW_58]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-about-8-inches-and-thick]() 3. [https://x.com/LegenDarrenX/status/1685683783306031104]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmTheMainCharacter/comments/1227dqc/nah_bro_were_still_cool_i_just_thought_it_was/]() 5. [https://x.com/mmamarcuss/status/1658168360931057673]() 6. [https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1685667802483724288]() 7. [https://x.com/MulhollandL0ver/status/1658843585045835778]() 8. [https://x.com/sabatonfan69/status/1773800849774432516]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/how-about-8-inches-and-thick Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library