The post was screenshotted and reuploaded by Twitter user on the same day, garnering over 14,200 likes and 2,800 retweets in the same span of time (shown below). On February 15th, Tumblr user posted, "Manipulate, mansplain, malewife" as a male-themed opposite to "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss," garnering over 27,000 notes in four days. As the trend evolved, Twitter users began posting images of characters under each phrase in Twitter posts, meant to personify each phrase (examples shown below). On February 12th, Twitter user tweeted, "gaslight gatekeep girlboss is the new live laugh love" garnering over 1,900 likes and 400 retweets in a week. On February 11th, Reddit user /u/ItsHipToTipTheScales posted a Homestuck themed "Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss" Venn diagram to /r/homestuck, garnering over 120 upvotes in a week (shown below, right). On January 24th, Twitter user made a shitpost image macro featuring the phrase over images of guitarist Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, garnering over 300 likes in three weeks (shown below, left). Gaslight gatekeep n girlboss /h5w39G6x8c- ন January 19, 2021 On January 22nd, Twitter user tweeted, "are u a live love laugh or a gaslight gatekeep girlboss" garnering over 1,000 likes and 140 retweets in under a month. For example, on January 19th, Twitter user posted a video from television show Charmed of three women chanting "the power of three will set us free" over a book along with the phrase, garnering over 200 likes and 39,000 views in a month (shown below). Throughout January 2021, the phrase slowly spread on Twitter, reaching a peak in mid-February. On January 18th, the image was reposted to Twitter for the first time. On January 13th, Tumblr user a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e reblogged the post along with a photoshopped image of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art instead reading, "Gaslight every moment, Gatekeep every day, Girlboss beyond words" (shown below). On that day, Twitter user posted, "my agenda is gaslight gatekeep and #girlboss," the first instance of the phrase on Twitter. On January 12th, 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today’s agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss," garnering over 43,500 notes in a month (shown below). A Girlboss is an empowered woman who takes charge of her own life, is self-made and independent. Gatekeeping is when you control and limit general access to something. Gaslighting is when someone manipulates someone by psychological means into believing something false and questioning their own sanity.
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