What is Lizzo Has Taken X?

A Twitter catchphrase meme where users joke that Lizzo has swiped a famous historical or fictional artifact, usually paired with a Photoshopped image.

Where did Lizzo Has Taken X come from?

It started on September 29, 2022, when Twitter user @IwriteOK joked that Lizzo had stolen Winston Churchill's theremin.

What does Lizzo Has Taken X mean?

It parodies conservative backlash to Lizzo playing James Madison's crystal flute on September 27, 2022, by escalating the complaint into absurd grand theft.

How do you use Lizzo Has Taken X?

Write "Lizzo has taken/stolen/acquired [item]" and attach a Photoshopped image of her holding something like Frostmourne or the Infinity Gauntlet.

Is Lizzo Has Taken X still popular?

The format spiked for about a week in late September and early October 2022 and then faded as the news story aged out.

Lizzo Has Taken X

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Published November 2, 2026

Lizzo Has Taken X, also known as Lizzo Has Acquired X, is a Twitter joke in which users imagine the pop singer absconding with some priceless historical or fictional object, started in late September 2022 to mock conservative outrage over her playing James Madison's crystal flute at a D.C. concert. By early October 2022, Photoshopped images of Lizzo clutching the Infinity Gauntlet and Frostmourne were earning tens of thousands of likes.

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Overview

Each post slots a famous object into the X position, so the joke can swap in anything from a 19th-century flute to a fantasy weapon. Users typically pair the phrase with a Photoshopped image showing Lizzo mid-heist, running away with the artifact or holding it onstage1. The gag works by pretending to take the conservative outrage seriously and then escalating it into cartoon theft.

Variants swing between history and pop culture. One strand focuses on real relics like Winston Churchill's theremin, while another leans fully fictional with items from Marvel films, Blizzard games or Tolkien's legendarium2. Posts stay short, since the phrase does the heavy lifting and the picture punches the joke home3.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Twitter

Creator

@IwriteOK

Date

2022

On September 27, 2022, the Library of Congress let Lizzo play James Madison's crystal flute during her Washington, D.C. tour stop5. Some conservatives online complained the moment, which included a brief twerk, degraded American history, though plenty of other users read that backlash as bad faith3.

On September 29, 2022, Twitter user @IwriteOK mocked the backlash with the tweet "Lizzo has stolen Winston Churchill's Theremin," which earned over 600 retweets and 7,100 likes across its first three days1. That one line set the template every follow-up copied.

How It Spread

Over the following week, Twitter users got creative and started editing Lizzo into scenes with historical and fictional loot. On September 30, 2022, @joshcarlosjosh wrote that Lizzo had taken the Infinity Gauntlet from Marvel's Avengers films, earning over 4,000 retweets and 46,000 likes in two days2.

On October 2, 2022, @chrissyxchip placed Lizzo in possession of Frostmourne, the cursed runeblade from World of Warcraft, hitting more than 4,400 retweets and 38,000 likes inside 24 hours4. Both posts leaned on Photoshopped composites rather than plain text, cementing the image-plus-caption shape of the meme3.

Timeline

2022-09-27

Lizzo plays James Madison's crystal flute during her Washington, D.C. concert, loaned by the Library of Congress.

2022-09-29

Twitter user @IwriteOK posts "Lizzo has stolen Winston Churchill's Theremin," setting the template.

2022-09-30

@joshcarlosjosh jokes that Lizzo has taken the Infinity Gauntlet from Marvel's Avengers films.

2022-10-02

@chrissyxchip claims Lizzo has acquired Frostmourne from World of Warcraft, hitting 38,000 likes in a day.