--- title: How the 'Christian Girl Autumn' Women Responded to the Meme description: The two women who unwittingly became the butt of the "Christian Girl Autumn" meme have shared their take on it. canonical: https://time.com/5652158/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-covington-respond/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-14T20:04:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:56.889Z og:title: Here's How the 'Christian Girl Autumn' Women Responded to the Meme og:description: "We don’t ever want to speak to the manager!” og:url: https://time.com/5652158/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-covington-respond/ 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: Here's How the 'Christian Girl Autumn' Women Responded to the Meme twitter:description: "We don’t ever want to speak to the manager!” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How the 'Christian Girl Autumn' Women Responded When They Learned They Were the Subject of the Meme > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 14, 2019 8:04 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 14, 2019 8:04 PM UTC In the wake of the [“Christian Girl Autumn” meme](https://twitter.com/lasagnabby/status/1159967906656149504) spreading across the internet, the two women who unwittingly became the subject of the joke have shared their take on it. After Twitter user [@lasagnabby](https://twitter.com/lasagnabby), a 19-year-old college student named Giovanni, posted a now three-year-old photo of lifestyle bloggers [Emily Gemma](http://www.thesweetestthingblog.com) and [Caitlin Covington](https://www.southerncurlsandpearls.com) with the caption, “[Hot Girl Summer](https://time.com/5632924/hot-girl-summer-meme-explained/) is coming to an end, get ready for Christian Girl Autumn,” on Friday, the tweet quickly racked up nearly nearly 51,000 likes and 13,000 retweets. “I saw a bunch of jokes about the [Megan Thee Stallion](https://time.com/5648188/lizzo-megan-thee-stallion-hot-girl-summer-video/) phrase ‘[Hot Girl Summer](https://time.com/5632924/hot-girl-summer-meme-explained/)‘ and decided to poke fun at it with a Christian white girl spin! I literally googled ‘[fall scarf outfits](https://time.com/4939482/maggie-gyllenhaal-taylor-swift-scarf/)‘ and ‘cute church outfits’ and saved the photos from there as memes,” Giovanni told [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/move-over-hot-girl-summer-christian-girl-autumn-meme-takes-n1042196). > [](https://twitter.com/lasagnabby/status/1159967906656149504) But while the tweet was earning plenty of replies poking fun at what some people on the internet consider the stereotypical connotations of Gemma and Covington’s appearance — [liking pumpkin spice lattes](https://twitter.com/Crommunist/status/1160658327686115329), [asking to speak to the manager](https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1160746032797540352), etc. — the pair was getting in on the fun. > [](https://twitter.com/Crommunist/status/1160658327686115329) > [](https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1160746032797540352) “This photo is nearly 3 years old, and I’m reading comments and cracking up laughing,” Gemma told NBC News. “And let’s be honest these are dated outfits.” “If all of Twitter is gonna make fun of my fall photos, at least pick some good ones!” Covington added in a tweet. “Super proud of these. For the record, I do like pumpkin spice lattes. Cheers!” > [](https://twitter.com/cmcoving/status/1160980974483775490) However, Gemma and Covington were adamant that they don’t fit the bill of the negative comments people were making implying they are homophobic, racist or intolerant. “That’s not me at all,” Covington told [Buzzfeed](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-convington-emily-gemma?origin=web-hf). “I’m a nice person and I love everyone and I’m accepting of everyone.” > [](https://twitter.com/cmcoving/status/1160704130672996356) “I’m white and Christian but none of the tweets were accurate,” Gemma added. “I laughed at all of it but…none of it’s true. We don’t ever want to speak to the manager!” Gemma went on to say that she thought the discourse surrounding the tweet had a positive impact. “If anything it’s brought everyone a little bit closer,” she said. “People started realizing, ‘Oh, these girls are real. They’re not whatever we thought they were.’ They assumed we were anti-LGBT, but we’re not at all. I’ve got friends who are trans and gay…I think people realized that not all white girls who love fall fashion and pumpkin spice are what we’re all categorized to look like.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5652158/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-covington-respond/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5652158/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-covington-respond/"},"headline":"Here's How the 'Christian Girl Autumn' Women Responded When They Learned They Were the Subject of the Meme","datePublished":"2019-08-14T20:04:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:56.889Z","description":"\"We don’t ever want to speak to the manager!”","url":"https://time.com/5652158/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-covington-respond/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","memes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/5652158/christian-girl-autumn-meme-caitlin-covington-respond/","name":"Here's How the 'Christian Girl Autumn' Women Responded When They Learned They Were the Subject of the Meme"}}]}] ```