# Timothee Yumyum Timothee Yumyum is a viral French Twitter drama from late December 2022 in which a young man named Timothee was exposed as a serial cheater after one of his girlfriends shared a text screenshot where he replied 'Yumyum' to a photo she had sent. French Twitter unraveled the affair in real time through flowcharts, cat memes, and jokes about his sexting style, turning 'Yumyum' into shorthand for cringe flirting. ## Overview Timothee Yumyum is a viral French Twitter thread from late December 2022 that exposed a young Frenchman named Timothee as a serial cheater, after one girlfriend posted a screenshot of him replying 'Yumyum' to a photo she had sent[1]. The awkward flirty reply became the visual anchor of the whole scandal and the phrase people latched onto[3]. The story went from a private text screenshot to a full public unraveling when a second woman commented on the same tweet claiming Timothee was actually her boyfriend[1]. From there, French Twitter dug into the 'affaire Timothee,' mapping his overlapping relationships in flowcharts and rewriting his sext into cat jokes and riffs on his dead-eyed texting style[4][6]. ## How It Spread On December 25th, 2022, French Twitter turned the mess into infographics. @buksista posted a flowchart of Timothee's overlapping relationships that racked up about 27,000 likes, and @hiitskar posted another version with roughly 21,000 likes[4][5]. The next day, users started riffing on the 'Yumyum' text itself. @win0g compared Timothee to a cat staring at food, hitting close to 7,000 likes in a day[6]. French politician Sandrine Rousseau even posted a joke tweet about the drama on December 25th, which pulled over 16,400 likes in two days and pushed the story from Twitter subculture toward mainstream French feeds[7]. By December 26th, brands were trying to piggyback. @MattAudibert called out Netflix for jumping on the affair and got about 4,000 likes plus a retweet from one of Timothee's exes[8]. The women at the center of the story asked people to stop harassing them, and 'Yumyum' settled into a French internet shorthand for cringe sexting and messy public dating drama[3]. ## How to Use People typically use 'Yumyum' as a sarcastic tag on a screenshot of a bad flirty text, or drop it under photos to mock a guy's clumsy sexting energy. A common convention is to pair it with a cat-food reaction image, following @win0g's December 26th, 2022 comparison[6]. French users also invoke 'affaire Timothee' when a new public cheating thread erupts, treating the phrase as a template for messy overlapping-relationship drama[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Timothee Yumyum? A viral French Twitter drama from December 2022 in which a guy named Timothee was outed as a cheater after his 'Yumyum' text reply to a girlfriend went public[1]. ### Where did Timothee Yumyum come from? It started on December 24th, 2022, when Twitter user @coralinsane posted the 'Yumyum' text screenshot and another woman replied claiming Timothee was her boyfriend[1][3]. ### What does Timothee Yumyum mean? 'Yumyum' was Timothee's actual reply to a photo one of his girlfriends sent him, and it became French Twitter shorthand for cringe flirty texting[3]. ### How do you use Timothee Yumyum? People typically drop 'Yumyum' as a sarcastic caption on bad flirty texts or pair it with cat memes, following @win0g's December 26th, 2022 comparison[6]. ### Is Timothee Yumyum still popular? It peaked in late December 2022 across French Twitter with tweets like Sandrine Rousseau's pulling 16,400 likes, and is mostly referenced historically now[7]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/coralinsane]() 2. [https://twitter.com/rosejkittenish]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/timothee-yumyum]() 4. [https://twitter.com/buksista]() 5. [https://twitter.com/hiitskar]() 6. [https://twitter.com/win0g]() 7. [https://twitter.com/sandrousseau]() 8. [https://twitter.com/MattAudibert]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/timothee-yumyum Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library