I Like Your Shoelaces | Know Your Meme

Navigation About • Origin • Spread • Various Examples • Related Memes • Search Interest • External References • Recent Images About I Like Your Shoelaces is a catchphrase and Tumblr meme used as a covert way for users to identify fellow Tumblr users in real life or on other platforms. The expected response to the phrase is “Thanks, I stole them from the president,” which serves as a reference confirming the speaker’s familiarity with Tumblr culture. After appearing in 2012, the phrase became closely associated with Tumblr’s early-2010s culture and was later revived through increased interest in Tumblr nostalgia. As the site’s older memes and trends became subjects of nostalgic discussion, I Like Your Shoelaces came to be referenced ironically as a relic of Tumblr’s past. By the 2020s, the exchange was generally regarded as one of the more dated and particularly cringeworthy examples of Tumblr culture, often invoked ironically to parody the site’s earlier community norms. Notably, the secret phrase is similar to The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight, which is a similar coded catchphrase created in 2009 for Redditors to identify themselves in public places. Origin Although the original post that began the exchange has since been deleted
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