The Brief: This meme conveys the awkwardness of being the only one doing something strange or embarrassing.
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This text-based meme illustrates someone doing something without being asked to. It typically exists as variations of the following script-like format.
Nobody:
Me:
Some versions use first-person for a self-drag or to show what it’s like to be the only person doing something. Other variations are about someone or something else doing something unprompted.
nobody:
the ap music theory exam: pic.twitter.com/u97IIUjA15— 𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕖 (@realandieangel) May 17, 2019
This format has been used in memes making fun of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter character updates:
Deadass nobody:
JK Rowling: Luna Lovegood was a bisexual voyeur who was pro-choice and a quarter Chinese. Wingardium Leviosa was Hermione’s safe word. Lucius Malfoy was a cuckold. It was never said but it was understood.— marquita (@marquitasade) March 17, 2019
People with the YOLO App:
absolutely nobody:
yall: pic.twitter.com/Q3NTKZMSIG
— Jor🌻 (@j_rdan_) May 9, 2019
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Me alone in my room: pic.twitter.com/dtchvSdpg9
— jas (@jasislas) May 15, 2019
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Not even a single soul:
Me: let’s overthink a situation 50836375 different ways and cause unnecessary stress
— USHMEISTER🌹 (@kingushbal) May 17, 2019
No one:
Literally nobody:
Not a single soul:
My sleep paralysis demons at 3am: https://t.co/ap9FNvgLIA
— P (@dancing_dawson) May 2, 2019
Nobody:
Me hearing my own joke:
— Dayne Kang (@_Daynegerous_) May 17, 2019
Nobody:
Me at bar/bat mitzvahs in 2010: pic.twitter.com/oUNrUgJU0r
— Nathan LeRoy (@NathanJLeRoy) May 17, 2019