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Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend

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Published October 26, 2026

Lilly, a 16-pound Flemish giant rabbit, and her 4-pound boyfriend Romeo became internet favorites after The Dodo profiled them in February 2019 under the headline "Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend Who's 4 Times His Size"1. Screenshots spread across Reddit the same week, inspiring anthropomorphic fan art and format edits on subs like r/okbuddyretard and r/ShitPostCrusaders3.

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Overview

Posts usually share the full article screenshot or just the headline paired with photos of the real rabbits snuggling. Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend works because of the extreme size difference, since Lilly is roughly four times Romeo's weight, and the pet-column phrasing ("tiny husbun," "giant girlfriend") reads as absurd when applied to anything else1. Reddit users mostly repost the screenshot as a wholesome find3.

Fan artists go further. The X drawing by @AWDtwit from February 2019 shows the pair as a tiny man and a huge woman5, a template later remixed into JoJo's Bizarre Adventure scenes on r/ShitPostCrusaders8 and into shitposts on r/okbuddyretard7. Each redraw keeps the small-boyfriend-and-big-girlfriend proportion while placing it in a new fandom.

Origin & Background

Platform
The Dodo (article) / Reddit (viral spread)
Date
2019

On February 8th, 2019, The Dodo published a profile of the Covelli family's two rabbits under the headline "Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend Who's 4 Times His Size"1. Lilly Sunshine, a 3-year-old Flemish giant, weighed 16 pounds, while her companion Romeo weighed 4 pounds. Owner Sarah Covelli called Romeo "tiny husbun" and told the site he followed Lilly everywhere because "he knows she'll protect him"1.

Within a week the article reached Reddit. On February 14th, 2019, a screenshot was posted to r/Rabbits2, and a second post with different photos went up on r/wholesomememes the same day with over 2,100 upvotes3. Know Your Meme lists these as the earliest known reposts of the article4.

How It Spread

X user @AWDtwit posted an anthropomorphized drawing of Romeo and Lilly on February 15th, 2019, which attracted over 25,000 likes5. In February 2021, a now-deleted Redditor posted a shitpost version to r/okbuddyretard that received more than 5,000 upvotes7. The original screenshot then landed on r/AbsoluteUnits on April 7th, 2021, where it drew over 75,000 upvotes and introduced Tiny Rabbit Is Obsessed With Giant Girlfriend to a much larger audience6.

Format edits followed on subculture subs. A JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover posted to r/ShitPostCrusaders on September 18th, 2021 picked up more than 17,000 upvotes8. On January 7th, 2023, the screenshot returned to r/meirl with over 30,000 upvotes9. On May 18th, 2024, X user @ChronicaErys posted a fresh redraw that attracted over 1,500 likes in three days10.

Offline, Lilly died in December 2022, which the Covelli family announced on Instagram11. Months later, in April 2023, they introduced a new rabbit named Chris as a companion for Romeo12.

Timeline

2022-12-15

Sarah Covelli announces Lilly's death on Instagram.

2024-05-18

X user @ChronicaErys posts a new redraw of the pair.

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How to Use This Meme

Common conventions include posting the article screenshot straight for a wholesome reaction, drawing the pair as a human couple with the same size gap, or editing Romeo and Lilly into existing fandom scenes (JoJo, anime, superhero media). The joke typically turns on the comic exaggeration of Lilly's size next to Romeo, matched to the sincere "boyfriend/girlfriend" framing of the original headline.

Frequently Asked Questions