MY BELOVED GIF MEME GENERATOR GENERATOR

In the following weeks, the GIF received viral spread through multiple reposts. The GIF spawned both Heart Locket GIF and My Beloved memes. On October 11th, Tenor user Desphanitom uploaded the GIF.

MY BELOVED GIF MEME GENERATOR GENERATOR

The generator did not see use in memes prior to early October 2020, when a version of the GIF with a photograph of Bingus and text 'bingus my beloved' became viral in now-defunct Binguscord Discord server (shown below). In March 2008, MakeSweet added a version of the animation in higher resolution. The list of available GIFs included a 3D GIF of a red heart-shaped locket that opened to reveal its contents (shown below). The memes often combine an image of a person or a character with the catchphrase My Beloved.On February 2008, personal blog MakeSweet by developer Paul 'paulfitz' Fitzpatrick added a tool for making simple custom animations, with images submitted by users being placed onto a variety of animated objects. Generated with MakeSweet and popularized by a Bingus edit, the GIF format gained viral popularity in February 2021. Heart Locket GIF refers to an exploitable GIF format in which custom image and text are added onto an animated GIF of a red 3D heart locket opening. On July 8th, Redditor sleepyLuki titled their fan art post 'Ganyu my beloved! ( ´ω｀)' in the /r/Genshin_Impact subreddit. On June 29th, Redditor Jhent titled their video post 'Metal Crates, my beloved' in the /r/Breath_of_the_Wild subreddit. For example, on May 21st, 2021, Twitter user posted a GIF of South Korean rapper Min Yoon-gi, writing 'yoongi my beloved.' The post received over 6,900 retweets and 21,800 likes.

Starting approximately in May 2021, the catchphrase 'my beloved' saw growing independent use, primarily as a caption for fan art of various people and characters and as a title for posts. For example, a tweet by received over 11,400 retweets and 90,300 likes in one day (shown below).

Photographs and videos of the content being displayed on Times Square gained viral spread.

On June 20th, YouTuber Landon's agency ARKH bought digital billboard space on Times Square to display content promoting Minecraft streamer Ranboo, particularly the Ranboo My Beloved heart locket GIF that in the previous months grew to become a local meme within the streamer's community. On March 31st, 2020, Tenor user Aystre posted a Quackity version of the meme (shown below, right). For example, on January 20th, 2021, Tenor user jxjxjx posted a Sana version of the Heart Locket GIF. The Ranboo version of the meme gained viral popularity among fans of the YouTuber, with both Heart Locket GIF and the caption 'My Beloved' spreading among fans of other Dream SMP members and among fans of K-pop bands. On December 28th, 2020, MakeSweet, the website used to generate Heart Locket GIFs, tweeted about a sudden influx of users, also posting about discovering the viral popularity of the Bingus version of the meme (shown below, right). On December 24th, Tenor user akechikun posted the earliest found derivative meme that used the generator, a tribute to YouTuber and Dream SMP member Ranboo (shown below, left). More edits and redraws of the original Bingus meme were posted (shown below, center and right). On October 19th, Tumblr user pompadorbz posted the earliest known derivative media within the format, a fan art of the Danganronpa character Kiyotaka Ishimaru that received over 1,900 likes and reblogs in nine months (shown below, left). In early October 2020, an unknown user created a Heart Locket GIF using MakeSweet generator with a photograph of Bingus, captioning it 'bingus my beloved,' with the image going viral in now-defunct Binguscord Discord server (shown below).

My beloved gif meme generator