Couples are sharing the hilarious difference between their Instagram captions — and it says a lot about how people describe their relationships online

The INSIDER Summary:

• On Monday, Isabella Koval tweeted a side-by-side comparison of the different captions that she and her boyfriend wrote for the same photo on Instagram.
• Koval captioned the photo, "Always a blast [with] my bff." Her boyfriend captioned it, "Sitting here trying to explain football to this uncultured swine." 
• After her tweet went viral, other couples shared their own side-by-side comparisons.
• One stand-out caption? "Ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli."
• It's an interesting example of the different ways in which people express themselves on social media.

Couples online are going viral for showing the stark difference between their Instagram captions — a hilarious phenomenon we first spotted on BuzzFeed.

On Monday, Isabella Koval shared two screenshots of the same Instagram photo on her Twitter page. The first was posted on her own account, the caption for which read: "Always a blast [with] my bff." The second was posted on her boyfriend Justin's account. His caption? "Sitting here trying to explain football to this uncultured swine." 

"My post [versus] my boyfriend's," Koval wrote on Twitter.

To Koval's surprise, her post instantly went viral, racking up over 41,000 retweets and 195,000 likes since Monday. While some people were not impressed by Justin's caption — Koval told BuzzFeed that a few Twitter users told her to dump him — most found the post hilarious.

Some couples even replied to Koval's post with their own side-by-side comparisons of their Instagram captions. 

Mary's caption for her Instagram post reads: "Sean choked on a piece of cheese stuffed crust the other day and almost died, I'm glad he didn't." Her boyfriend's was a bit more concise: "Mary eats a--."

In her caption, Kristen wrote, "I like green and dis boi." Her boyfriend opted for "Some green s---." 

Bernette captioned her photo, "Because of you, I smile a little bigger and laugh a little longer." Her boyfriend shared the same photo and wrote, "Wizard kelly with the Sky Hook."

Maura shared a sweet message in the caption of this photo with her boyfriend: "Thanks for being the best date I could've asked for." Her boyfriend Adam wrote: "Meat sticks or nah?"

"My favorite person #mylove," Kristina captioned her Instagram post. Her boyfriend Kyle captioned the same photo, "Ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli."

While these side-by-side comparisons are hilarious, they're also not that surprising, given society's prevailing gender norms that socialize men to withhold their emotions.

Add to that the fact that Instagram's user base tends to skew female. According to comScore, a company that measures Internet traffic, 58% of Instagram's 108 million unique visitors were women and 42% were men as of April 2016, The Atlantic reported last year.

Koval even told BuzzFeed that her boyfriend "rarely posts on any social media.""I'm always telling him he should post more," she added.

Research has also found that women tend to spend more time staging "perfect" posts on Instagram whereas men don't find this effort to be "worth the pressure that comes with it."

Of course, this is by no means a conclusive finding on how men and women use Instagram. Still, it's interesting that all the women in this story wrote sentimental captions that ostensibly took more time and effort while their boyfriends opted for more tongue-in-cheek one-liners. 

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