God I Wish That Were Me

About

"God I Wish That Were Me" refers to a DeviantArt comment by user BigJB21 in response to an adult baby fetish digital art image.

Origin

On January 15th, 2011, DeviantArtist^[3] misssuan002 posted a 3D art image featuring a small man being cradled cradled like a baby by a larger woman (shown below). On October 16th, 2012, DeviantArt user BigJB21 posted the message “god i wish that were me” in the comment section for the image.

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On April 7th, 2015, a screenshot of the 3D art and BigJB21's comment was submitted to /r/CringeAnarchy,^[5] where it received more than 1,300 votes (97% upvoted) and 60 comments prior to being archived. That day, a screenshot of BigJB21's DeviantArt profile page was uploaded to Imgur, showing that he had a collection of diaper fetish art titled "Diapered Kids" (shown below).

On April 25th, 2016, the image was reposted to /r/CringeAnarchy.^[1] On May 9th, DeviantArtist TimeForSP posted an illustration of BigJB21's profile image titled "God I Wish That Were Me" (shown below). That month, a Facebook page titled "BigJB21" was launched, gathering more than 3,100 likes in the next eight months.

On August 19th, the They Boot Too Big For They Gotdamn Feet Facebook^[2] page posted a photograph of a woman walking a large group of chihuahua dogs with the caption "God I wish that were me." On October 30th, 2016, a post about the DeviantArt comment was submitted to the /r/ (Adult Requests) board on 4chan.^[4]

On January 20th, 2017, the communist_memes Instagram^[7] page posted a photograph of Donald Trump being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, followed by BigJB21's comment superimposed with a picture of Hillary Clinton (shown below).

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