The Brief: These image macros feature a selfie of a black male with raised eyebrows making a ridiculous confession.
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“I may not show it” memes are image macros that feature a selfie of a young black male with raised eyebrows making a random confession. The original photo was first posted to Facebook in 2015 and was later used in news reports after a video of a white woman trying to prevent the poster from entering his own apartment went viral in 2018.
Nearly a year after the video, memes using the image began spreading through Reddit and other social media:
It really do be like that sometimes:
I don’t know how reddit works but here’s an Arin meme I made from gamegrumps
Real sad boy hours:
smoked the rest of my weed not very high feeling sad awake at 3am on thanksgiving day what am I doing from teenagersnew
Please say sike right now:
Deep-fried, extra crispy:
Minecraft is a dangerous game:
It all went downhill after Click TBH…