The "If Only There Was Someone Out There Who Loved You" format usually runs as a multi-panel image macro. One partner appears to lean in with love or comfort, then pulls back with a variant of the Hans line, often kept close to the original phrasing5. The joke depends on the reader recognizing the borrowed couple and feeling the same gut punch Anna gets in the film. Because of that, the strongest entries pull from famously earnest fictional romances, so the fake-out lands harder1.

Tone runs from gleefully mean to genuinely bleak depending on which pairing is being betrayed. The Atlantic described the source moment as "uniquely horrifying" for young viewers1, and macro creators lean into that discomfort rather than defuse it. Jezebel called Hans a "Grade-A classic dickweasel"2, and the meme keeps that same reading intact: the point is that the trusted partner was rotten the whole time.

Typical entries run three or four panels. The first panel shows one character in visible distress. The second shows the partner leaning in like they are about to kiss or comfort. The third or fourth panel has the partner pulling back with a smug expression and a caption riffing on the Hans line, often keeping the "if only there was someone" opening intact. Common practice is to pick pairings the audience has strong feelings about, because the joke lives or dies on that emotional recognition.