My Husband, He Bought It

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About

My Husband, He Bought It refers to a parody of the Ariana Grande song "7 Rings" that has been adopted as a series of TikTok to flaunt one's wealth or lack thereof.

Origin

In April 2019, TikTok^[1] user @melanie_candler24 posted the original video in which she sings the parody of the song and shows off a phone, car and ring.

The post has since been deleted, but Twitter user @houseandhens shared the video on April 21st, 2019. The post received more than 7 million views, 18,000 likes and 2,700 retweets in three months (shown below).

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The following day, Twitter user @thatGApeach shared @melanie_candler24's reaction to the popularity of the video, particularly negative response. The post received more than 2.5 million views, 25,000 likes and 3,200 retweets in three months (shown below).

Around this time, others began parodying the video. On April 20th, TikTok user @notahatepageanymore posted a parody that received more than 894,000 likes and 5,600 comments in three months (shown below, left).

Three days later, on April 24th, TikTok user @tokigtjej123 posted a variation that received more than 120,000 likes and 1,000 comments in three months (shown below, right).

Following the release of the video, people began using the phrase "my husband, he bought it" as the caption to various images. For example, Twitter^[2] user @drowzygf paired a screenshot from the video with the Name One Thing in This Photo meme. The post received more than 600 likes and 50 retweets in three months (shown below, left).

On April 28th, Twitter^[3] user @ThyArtIsMemes tweeted a photograph of a car with logo for band My Chemical Romance's album The Black Parade on the door panel with the caption "You like my car? My husband, he bought it." The post received more than 12,000 likes and 3,000 retweets in three months (shown below, center).

The next day, Twitter^[4] @ripaubree tweeted a photograph of a man in a van with the words "loded diper" spray-painted on the side. The post received more than 28,000 likes and 4,000 retweets in three months (shown below, right).