# My Sides "My Sides" is a laughter shorthand meaning someone laughed so hard their ribs ache, often dropped as a one-word reply under a funny post[1]. The phrase went from early-2000s message-board slang to a 4chan staple by late 2012, when its escalated variant "my sides are in orbit" took off[3]. ## Origin "My Sides" descends from "laughing 'til my sides hurt," abbreviated LTMSH, which appeared on Roshan's Humour List of internet acronyms as early as 1996, and its trimmed form first surfaced on October 27, 2000 in a blog comment reacting to a post titled "50 ways to get kicked out of the mall"[2]. - **Platform:** Blog comments / 4chan and Tumblr (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2000 ## Overview Urban Dictionary's first definition from October 2012 boiled the phrase down to "I split my sides," a reference to the physical strain of laughing hard[1]. The example use in that entry set the tone: a groaner pun ("what's 300 pounds, lives in the attic, only eats pizza and only drinks beer? you") followed by "I split my sides" as the reaction[1]. The escalated variant "my sides are in orbit" pushes the joke further by pretending the ribs reached escape velocity, and it usually shows up in 4chan threads featuring absurd webms, sports fails, and crossposts to niche boards[3]. ## How It Spread Through the early 2000s, the phrase drifted across Usenet newsgroups and small message boards including counterculture site Bombshock, Tolkien fan hub Council of Elrond, and gaming board Terra Arcanum[2]. By February 2008 it had gone live across 4chan[3]. October 2012 was a turning point when Urban Dictionary published its first "MY SIDES" entry, giving casual internet users a definition to point to when the phrase came up[1]. The variant "My Sides Are in Orbit" first appeared on 4chan's /sp/ board on August 28, 2012, aimed at a since-deleted YouTube video[3]. It jumped to /fit/, /mlp/, and /m/ over the following months, showing up in threads for fitness, My Little Pony, and Mecha content[3]. ## How to Use Common convention is to drop "my sides" as a short standalone reply under something funny, often with no accompanying text[1]. For the intensified version, posters typically pair "my sides are in orbit" with the webm or image doing the actual joke work[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is My Sides? "My Sides" is internet slang for laughing so hard the ribs hurt, often dropped as a one-word reply under a funny image or joke[1]. ### Where did My Sides come from? It descends from the 1996 internet acronym LTMSH ("laughing 'til my sides hurt") and first appeared in trimmed "my sides" form in an October 2000 blog comment[2]. ### What does My Sides mean? It means the speaker laughed so hard their diaphragm or ribs are in pain, essentially a shortcut for "I split my sides laughing"[1]. ### How do you use My Sides? Post it as a short standalone reply under something funny, or use "my sides are in orbit" with a webm or image that carries the joke[3]. ### Is My Sides still popular? Its peak visibility ran from 2012 through 2013 across 4chan boards, where the "in orbit" variant showed up in threads on /sp/, /fit/, /mlp/, and /m/[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=My%20Sides]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-sides]() 3. [https://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/text/my%20sides/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/my-sides Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library