He Wants to Order

About

He Wants to Order refers to a series of redraw memes based on a photograph of a man in the passenger seat of a car leaning and crawling over the driver to order food at a drive-thru window, captioned with a Snapchat banner reading, "He wants to order." The photo was posted to Tumblr in July 2022 and Twitter in August, inspiring numerous redraws over the following day, including a "She wants to order" variant.

Origin

On July 14th, 2022, now-deleted Twitter^[7] user @yochtclub posted a selfie where Instagram^[8] user @dantesancerre is leaning over him from the passenger seat of a car ordering food at the drive-thru, captioned, "at mcdonald’s." A Snapchat banner reads, "He wants to order." The post gained over 14,000 likes before it was deleted (shown below). It was reposted by Tumblr^[1] user poppy-ghost on July 22nd, 2022, garnering over 12,000 notes in a month. Although the caption suggests they were at McDonald's, @yochtclub told Know Your Meme in a comment on TikTok^[10] that they were at Jollibee's.

Spread

The image became the subject of redraws in the following weeks as it spread to other platforms online. On August 21st, 2022, Twitter^[2] user @sleepybawoonman posted a redraw of the meme replacing the people with Cuphead characters, garnering over 3,300 likes and 330 retweets in two days (shown below). On August 22nd, 2022, Twitter^[3] user @suguruhrs posted the photo, writing, "someone draw this as gojo and geto i beg," garnering over 9,500 likes and 700 retweets in a day.

Twitter user @suguruhrs's tweet inspired numerous Twitter users to redraw the meme shortly after. On that day, August 22nd, Twitter^[4] user @MANSPLAlN posted a version of the meme using One Piece characters, garnering over 640 likes in a day (shown below, left). On August 23rd, Twitter^[5] user @hsyIvr posted a version of the meme using characters from Bungo Stray Dogs, garnering over 2,500 likes and 500 retweets in under a day (shown below, right).

On the same day, Twitter^[6] user @luckyybreaker posted a version of the meme redrawing the men as Naruto characters, garnering over 770 likes and 200 retweets in under a day (shown below).

On August 25th, Twitter^[9] user @chutabou posted a Spy x FAMILY meme using the format, garnering over 135,000 likes and 16,000 retweets in five days (shown below).

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