How your email finds me

Updated August 2, 2026

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What is the How your email finds me trend?

A playful contrast trend for aesthetic lifestyle or product b-roll paired with the text “How your email finds me.” The joke is that every email arrives at the least professional, most random, or most hyper-specific moment of your day. Brands use this to spotlight routines, products, or environments, showing the cute, chaotic, or aspirational situations their audience is actually in when they get messages, reminders, or brand updates.

Where did the How your email finds me trend come from?

The "How your email finds me" trend is a video format derivative of the "How the Email Finds Me" meme, which originated on Twitter in April 2020 as a parody of the professional email opener "I hope this email finds you well." The earliest documented instance was posted by Twitter user @wintersp00ky on April 14, 2020, though it gained minimal engagement at the time. The format broke through in late August 2020, when a tweet by @WhatsUrIG on August 26 earned over 22,000 retweets and 82,000 likes, followed by a post from @wallysfax the next day that reached roughly 37,000 retweets and 188,000 likes. Coverage by Design Taxi on August 28, 2020 further amplified the trend. The format later migrated to TikTok and Instagram Reels, where it evolved from static image humor into short-form video, with creators and brands pairing aesthetic lifestyle b-roll with the on-screen caption "How your email finds me" to humorously highlight the gap between professional availability and their actual surroundings at the moment of contact.