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Severance, the sci-fi thriller series directed by Ben Stiller and produced by Dan Erickson, generated buzz after its first season, and Season 2 is now ratcheting up the suspense and excitement among fans.
The show's existential questions and psychological drama has propelled Apple TV+ and assured the platform a place on the Nielsen streaming rankings.
While plot reveals of the show continue to make waves, the internet has made the premiere of Season 2 a meme machine, with the "Your Outie Likes X" fad sweeping across social media quicker than a Lumon worker switches from being an Innie to an Outie.
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Decoding the 'Your Outie Likes X' meme from Severance
A meme titled "Your Outie Likes X" has gone viral after the release of Severance Season 2. The meme lets users to make fun of traits of their Outie self, that is, their life outside work, as opposed to their Innie selves.
Severance, the Apple TV+ thriller series, delves into the worlds of Lumon employees who receive a mind-splitting procedure that creates two distinct identities: the work-driven Innie and the off-the-clock Outie.
The Innie does not know beyond the walls of the office, while the Outie experiences everyday life completely unaware of office issues that the Innie self has to deal with.
The show's story idea became the basis of the viral "Your Outie Likes X" meme, adapted from a clip in which John Turturro's Irving finds out what his Outie is interested in after a session with Ms. Casey, acted by Dichen Lachman.
The conversation they had, could almost start with the sentence,
"You Outie likes X."
The meme style playfully brings out self-image disconnect, with users cheekily responding to unimpressive, strange, or peculiar things that their respective Outies presumably like. The trend was soon embraced by TikTok, too.
Origin of the meme
With Season 2 streaming, the trend has rolled out across all social platforms, particularly TikTok, where creators are making skits regarding the unexpected hobbies or shameful habits of their Outies.
The meme typically relies on the irony between what people think about themselves and what happens with the choices of their Outies, with trending videos capturing POV captions, such as finding an Outie with eccentric hobbies, old trends, or suspicious ways of living.
So, it could be that you want to do stuff according to your Outie, but your Innie doesn't let you do so, fearing concsequences. On X and Instagram, content creators are incorporating the meme trend into reaction posts, too.
The meme began in May 2022, when an X user (@bIoach) posted a photo of Ms. Casey from Severance, joking about their Outie's hypothetical whims. The tweet started a trend, with users across platforms envisioning everything, from humiliating habits to strangely particular hobbies.
As Season 2 picked up steam, the meme returned, now taking the form of TikTok skits and Instagram reels.
Some 'Your Outie Likes X' meme examples
As Severance Season 2 generates buzz, the "Your Outie Likes X" meme is once again taking over social media. What started as a joke about finding out your Outie's personal preferences has evolved into a craze on the net.
From weirdly specific hobbies to outright embarrassing vices, fans are discovering endless ways to poke fun at the idea that their Outie might be living a life they wouldn't claim. It seems like the real horror of Severance isn't memory gap — it is the idea that your Outie is a cringe factory.
1) Your Outie likes listening to Glee covers (via X/@saba_h)
Your Outie likes to listen to Glee covers, because apparently bad memories weren't the only thing Lumon tried to suppress.
2) Your Outie inserts the USB the right way up every single time (via X/@Hidan_Muema)
Your Outie inserts the USB right way every time, proving they are living a much more advanced life than yours.
3) Your Outie doom scrolls multiple social media sites (via X/@MrsMcWendie)
Your Outie doom scrolls across all of social media to a standstill, because the stress hasn't yet returned. They stop only to read past notifications all over again, hoping to find illumination in a three-day-old 'like'. The algorithm goads them on, presenting them with existential horror one post at a time.
4) Your Outie listens to the same album on repeat for days at a time (via X/@Air_Bear420)
Your Outie plays the same album over and over for days because personal development is not required, but replay is. Song are more about familiarity and less about exploration, like an auditory security blanket. Seriously, even Spotify is worried.
5) Your Outie sings every part of One Day More to themselves in the shower at least once a week (via X/@missh8ter)
How cool is it when your Outie sings every part of One Day More at least once in the shower — it'll be good for you.
6) Your Outie once wrote a post declaring "We are so back..." (via X/@preseedcultist)
Your Outie at one point wrote a post announcing, "We are so back," and four people liked it! That's real leadership in the era of wishy-washy optimism. A response comment may have even been"Fr" — an endorsement in contemporary diplomacy. The history books won't record it, but your group chat members would never let it slip their minds.
7) Your Outie is the master of half-finished projects and unsolicited expertise (via X/@neversitdull)
Your Outie spends hours venting about JavaScript frameworks, hoards unused domain names like they are collector's items, and purchases online courses only to quit halfway. They can also explain with confidence the difference between a font and a typeface — whether anyone wanted them to or not.
8) Your Outie is generous (via X/@agnesvrda)
Your Outie is a sweetie, a genuine kindness hero adored by children and the elderly, and is also wonderfully zany. They will hold doors open, offer their snack, and smile wisely at a meandering tale. If empathy were a sport in the Olympics, your Outie would win a gold medal.
9) Your Outie is getting 50 laugh reactions on their meme in a work group chat (via X/@battleangelviv)
Your Outie is killing it with 50 laugh reactions in the work group chat — finally, professional validation that counts.
10) Your Outie likes blueberries in their cereal (via X/@TJ_Zwarych5)
Your Outie loves blueberries in breakfast cereal. Even breakfast deserves a little touch of self-righteousness!
So, there it is. The "Your Outie Likes X" meme in all its cringe-filled glory. It's a funny reminder that while you are spending time carefully crafting the best version of yourself, your Outie is out double-dipping chips, listening to 2010 pop, and digging reality TV you claim to despise. The twist? Your Outie has no opinion about what you think — They are living their best (and possibly most humiliating) life, one questionable decision at a time.
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