'If You Can't Handle Me at My Worst' Meme Takes a Whole New Form

A quote misattributed to Marilyn Monroe has reached new heights (and lows).

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By now, you know how it goes: "if you don't love me at my ___, you don't deserve me at my ___." Then fill in the blanks with a before and after.

We don't know where the meme exactly originated, but we do know the trend derives from a quote often misattributed to Marilyn Monroe: "I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best."

It started off with sentences like "if you can't handle me at my Lindsay Lohan, you don't deserve me at my Beyoncé," but now, people are expressing them with pairs of images, Mashable reports. Some are of celebrities, including transformations of their previous to later selves.

if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/dSSt3QFhMH
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/Af8eptPEjl
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/lizutevXV5

And then the trend shifted to cartoon characters.

if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/ff1pNlGI8M
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/NRUyWkxU8M
if you then you
don't love don't deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/OS42OvGN0g
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/DCuXXdFFfk

And finally, objects. The meme is just objects. It won't be long until another meme makes the rounds, but it's not every day that one trascends human beings.

if you then you
don't love don't deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/VVb24svIKU
if you then you
don't love don't deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/UA5b702IeL
If you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/ZZRhHOdKQy
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/nrhGSJvZ6k
if you then you don't
don't love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/LSgDjXV2nx
if you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/UawfLNEFEi

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