--- title: MattyB Hide Your Girlfriend Meme description: 14-year-old YouTube personality and aspiring rapper MattyB warned the internet to hide their girlfriends — so they took him at his word. canonical: https://time.com/4762330/mattyb-hide-your-girlfriend-meme/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-01T21:38:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:14.617Z og:title: The Internet Is Hiding Girlfriends After Teen Rapper's Tweet og:description: MattyB's casual tweet inspired a new meme og:url: https://time.com/4762330/mattyb-hide-your-girlfriend-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Hiding Girlfriends After Teen Rapper's Tweet twitter:description: MattyB's casual tweet inspired a new meme twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Is Diligently Hiding Its Girlfriends In Response to a Teen Rapper's Tweet  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 1, 2017 9:38 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 1, 2017 9:38 PM UTC MattyBRaps, real name [Matthew Morris](http://mattybraps.com/about), is a 14-year-old aspiring rapper, pop singer, and fairly successful internet personality. (He’s got nearly a million Twitter followers and over 8 million YouTube subscribers, thanks to the viral posts and cover recordings he’s been putting out since he was just seven years old; a recent single called [“Spend It All on You”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4x-Y06IrF0) is a tween-friendly pop-rap confection with millions of views.) And now he’s at the start of an amusing [new meme](http://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/) that made the rounds online over the weekend. The teen artist shared a photo of himself to Twitter with the caption “Hide your girlfriend… I’m headed out for the day.” While it’s unclear what reaction the young wannabe heartbreaker expected, his followers decided to take him quite literally, and started reaching out to their girlfriends to implore them to hide. > [](https://twitter.com/MattyBRaps/status/858344802320035841) > [](https://twitter.com/Zrowable/status/858442893522083844) > [](https://twitter.com/vinylsmike/status/858697778712776704) > [](https://twitter.com/venriquezzz/status/858389288274276352) > [](https://twitter.com/sadderall/status/858538934573322240) > [](https://twitter.com/jackdwagner/status/858479274944118784) > [](https://twitter.com/KelenKeller38/status/858468589300465664) Others decided to copycat MattyB’s look and style, warning that girlfriends should be hidden from _them_, too. Kids these days sure do know how to look out for each other. > [](https://twitter.com/pamelabeasly/status/858853956482736130) > [](https://twitter.com/UniversalORL/status/859152201452843012) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4762330/mattyb-hide-your-girlfriend-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4762330/mattyb-hide-your-girlfriend-meme/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Diligently Hiding Its Girlfriends In Response to a Teen Rapper's Tweet","datePublished":"2017-05-01T21:38:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:14.617Z","description":"14-year-old YouTube personality and aspiring rapper MattyB warned the internet to hide their girlfriends — so they took him at his word.","url":"https://time.com/4762330/mattyb-hide-your-girlfriend-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4762330/mattyb-hide-your-girlfriend-meme/","name":"The Internet Is Diligently Hiding Its Girlfriends In Response to a Teen Rapper's Tweet"}}]}] ```