Demi Lovato, who uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, is many things. She's a singer, actor, and performer. And, if you're extremely online, you know she's also the subject of two iconic memes.
They're also the face of Poot Lovato, a widely shared doctored photo of them that, according to Know Your Meme, originated on Tumblr in 2015.
The TL;DR of the meme is that Poot Lovato was reportedly created to be a twin sister to Demi. It eventually spawned countless memes.
Now, years later, Demi has shared her thoughts on the meme and its longevity. Unsurprisingly, she wasn't exactly a fan of the doctored photo at first.
"When Poot went viral, that actually sucked because I thought that was a real picture of me. And I was like, oh no, that's a really bad angle. But Poot was photoshopped. Later I felt better about it because I realized that wasn't my face," they told Harper's Bazaar in an interview on Friday.
"It was definitely weird when it went viral," she continued, noting the meme is now "really funny to look back on."
This isn't the first time Demi has acknowledged the meme. According to Mashable, Demi said in 2015 in a now-deleted tweet, "Cool to see a shitty angle turn into a meme that circulates the Internet to people's amusement ha" and added in a second tweet "Oh and makes actual 'headlines.'"
So, all these years later, it's good to see that Demi seems to be on good terms with the Poot situation. You can check out Demi's full interview with Harper's Bazaar below:
