
Im a Starving Child Starving to Death and This Is the Very Last Thing I Have Eve...
Published October 20, 2026
Posted as a Twitter reply on March 21, 2022, this copypasta mocks takes its users see as overwrought or extremely online, usually identity-politics arguments or fandom squabbles. By August 2022, streamer Vaush had amplified a screenshot of the exchange and the text spread as a general-purpose put-down.
Overview
Replies take the voice of a child dying of hunger, declaring that the quoted tweet is so pointless it would be their very last reading experience, signed off with the misspelled 'Gootbye' instead of 'Goodbye'. Targets are usually hot takes about identity, race, gender, or fandom that strike the replier as absurdly inconsequential against real-world suffering5.
Over summer 2022, posters began modifying the text. Replies to music tweets replaced 'read' with 'hear'7, and others clipped the line down to only its final words8. The misspelled 'Gootbye' acts as the punchline in every variant, marking the reply even when the body is cut short.
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How to Use This Meme
To use the format, reply to a tweet you find overwrought or extremely online with the full text or a shortened version, keeping the misspelled 'Gootbye' at the end. For music takes, use 'hear' instead of 'read'7. Typical targets are identity-politics arguments or fandom discourse the replier considers pointless4.
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