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"Breakups suck. You know what makes them easier? Re-imagining your happiest times together with none other than Queen B," Cassandra Blackwell writes on her genius Tumblr "Beyoncify My Boyfriend. And we couldn't agree more.

 

Instead of merely deleting/crying over/cursing/denying the existence of all the photos of herself with her ex, as we are all apt to do post-breakup, Blackwell did one better: She slapped him with Bey. "I’m not trying to properly cover him, I’m just slapping him with Beyoncé, and people are really responding to that," she told Buzzfeed. "If imagining yourself at your happiest with Beyoncé doesn’t help, I don’t know what will." So true. Why do some of your best memories have to be tainted when they could be Beyoncified? In fact, this sounds like an improvement.

 

"This was a fun thing that made me forget about the breakup," Blackwell told ELLE this morning. The 19-year-old, who works in retail management in Toronto, says this all started as a personal project that has caught on, fast: "I made the first picture on Twitter a while back and re-posted it this Sunday and it just blew up—my follower count doubled in a few hours. People asked me to do more. So I just made a Tumblr and posted them there. Tumblr seemed like the perfect platform," she said. And the response has been immediate: "I think it's doing so well because everyone can relate to it. It's just fun and innocent I think that's why everyone is enjoying it. I made the blog for my friends and never expected it to get like this.

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"Incidentally, Blackwell has corresponded with her ex since his Beyoncified self became an Internet sensation. "When the blog started to blow up I reached out to him and made sure he was okay with it and he said it was fine as long as we kept it anonymous and lighthearted and fun," she explained.

 

When we asked her why Queen B, Blackwell said the answer is obvious: "I think it's pretty self-explanatory. When you go through a terrible breakup, you feel miserable and down in the dumps. Beyoncé exudes so much confidence, empowerment, sexiness—the qualities we forget we have in ourselves when we're going through a breakup." As for what she'll do if all the terrible rumors are true and Beyoncé herself goes the breakup route: "Obviously I'll Photoshop Beyoncé's face over Jay Z's. Beyoncé would probably rather date nobody but herself. She's the perfect human so she couldn't do any better." Truth.

 

"The pictures aren’t the best quality, but that’s kind of the point. I have no idea how to use Photoshop," Blackwell told Buzzfeed. Well, we think they're flawless. Plus, Blackwel is paying the Bey forward: Send her your own photos and she'll Beyoncify your ex for you. "I posted on the blog that people could send submission and I've received hundreds," she told us. Bow down, bitches.

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