The Brief: The lines "One taught me love/one taught me patience/one taught me pain" in "thank u, next" are now a meme format.

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Three lines in Ariana Grande‘s hit song “thank u, next” has fans debating various theories about which of her exes she’s referring to when she sings:
One taught me love
One taught me patience
One taught me pain
These lines also inspired a meme format which displays three images and suggests that the first one taught them love, the second taught them patience, and the third taught them pain.
one taught me love, one taught me patience, one taught me pain pic.twitter.com/jcPkfsmHH4
— Ayo Edebiri (@ayoedebiri) November 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/annieyilingwang/status/1059884428380450816
one taught me love, one taught me patience, one taught me pain pic.twitter.com/kKBZ0YW4nX
— ZoΓ« (@snarfsnart) November 6, 2018
One taught me love
One taught me patience
One taught me pain pic.twitter.com/4IraFGlhGE— Marcella Arguello (@marcellacomedy) November 6, 2018
One taught me love
One taught me patience
One taught me pain pic.twitter.com/HeGgyQ3JW6— me tiene cansao π΅π¦ (@ThomasPoptart) November 7, 2018
one taught me love
one taught me patience
one taught me pain pic.twitter.com/mJQ6x58Mdk— bensley mortimer (@benarmishaw) November 5, 2018
One taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain pic.twitter.com/7cn86g3rVI
— arbyn (@lacroixtears) November 6, 2018
One taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain. Now Iβm so amazing. pic.twitter.com/Sz19khGZjm
— Ryan Bloomquist (@ryanbloomquist) November 4, 2018
one taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain pic.twitter.com/LKujY9opaj
— nicole boyce (@nicolewboyce) November 5, 2018