We're Gonna End Up Like This

About

We're Gonna End Up Like This, also written We'll End Up Like This or We Gone End Up Like This, is a phrasal template commonly paired with the phrase Keep Liking My Posts that meme creators use to demonstrate how a certain behavior will result in a desired outcome, often romantic or ironic in nature. The phrase typically uses the format of "Keep Liking X And We're Gonna End Up Like This" with multiple variations. The meme first gained traction on Twitter in late 2018, using the catchphrase, "Keep liking my tweets and we're gonna end up like this." However, precursors saw use on Instagram dating back to 2016.

Origin

The phrase "we gone end up like this" predates all other forms of this concept, which is evident in an Instagram^[4] post from June 22nd, 2016, posted by the account lgtblovee. The meme received over 180 likes in six years. The first tweet to use the phrase, "Keep liking my tweets and we're gonna end up like this," or some form of it was posted on November 1st, 2018, by Twitter^[1] user Mr_Gr4Y whose tweet earned roughly 26 likes over the course of four years (shown below).

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On November 21st, 2018, Twitter^[2] user katanasIice posted a similar tweet to the one shown above, using the same phrasal template but earning more likes, roughly 4,100 over the course of four years (shown below, left). Going into early 2021, tweets using the phrase started receiving an increased amount of engagement. For instance, the first tweet to gain over 50,000 likes was posted on February 17th, 2021, by Twitter^[3] user arabeIIaessiedu, who earned roughly 59,800 likes over the course of one year (shown below, right).

On June 20th, 2019, Facebook^[5] page You Know What It Is posted a meme that captioned an image of two lovers embracing each other with, "Keep laughing at my memes and we're gonna end up like this," earning roughly 7,400 shares over the course of three years (shown below, left). On July 23rd, 2019, Tumblr^[6] blog zocadic used the caption, "keep talking to me and we’re gonna end up like this" in a post that received roughly 61,100 notes over the course of three years (shown below, right).

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