The Brief: This meme combines two iconic reaction images to make one meme.
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This meme format popularized on Twitter is meant to convey the difficulty of explaining something to someone.
Most versions of the meme feature side by side reaction pics. The first photo (left) is a still image from Twitter user @quenblackwell’s viral “screaming video”. The second photo (right) shows popular “meme queen” Ms. Juicy from Little Women: Atlanta looking straight up confused.
me explaining that
listening to
angry music actually literally
makes me a less everyone
angry person pic.twitter.com/Y7tlvfwhTt— Ⓒ Ⓞ Ⓡ Ⓔ Ⓨ Ⓙ Ⓐ Ⓒ Ⓚ Ⓢ Ⓞ Ⓝ (@cxreyjacksxn) May 30, 2019
People have paired these two images together to communicate their existential crises, meltdowns, and fandom woes on Twitter.
Me explaining
My love for my
Dog and how I
Would die for him My dog pic.twitter.com/qy2O9tsJke— 𝔼-𝕄𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕒𝕝ッ (@eemmmmauel) May 28, 2019
This format is similar to the image macro Monsters, Inc. Explaining memes from Reddit in which character, Mike Wazowski emphatically explains something to an otherwise passive or uninterested audience.
Me explaining to
my boss that I
literally will not know
what day I’m taking
off for Eid because
Muslims follow a
lunar calendar and
I have to wait for
someone in Saudi
Arabia to spot the
new moon: My boss: pic.twitter.com/DIv3tp7jBB— jerusalem, palestine (@danalobad) May 28, 2019
Me explaining to My
my eyebrow lady eyebrow
how to do my lady
brows pic.twitter.com/f3Pskcm1RH— malaak (@Malaak__19) May 27, 2019
Me explaining to my
wallet why I’m buying
Call of Duty again
and why Modern Warfare
is still the best series My Wallet pic.twitter.com/riB1R2hoJi— The Man Who Sold The World (@LordBalvin) May 30, 2019
Many versions of the meme show someone trying to explain something to their Mom, with little to no results:
10 year old me
explaining why I need
5 chocolate scented
erasers from the
scholastic book fair: my mom: pic.twitter.com/hk6Pu7pI0f— amina (@phenaminan) May 23, 2019
me explaining
why i need ice cream
from the ice cream truck
to my mom
when I was
4
even tho we had
ice cream @ home my mom pic.twitter.com/Q03tgKbtdB— murs🎐🦚 (@pashmola) May 29, 2019
me explaining
to my mum how
I don’t KNOW the
people in the video
I just showed her my mum pic.twitter.com/vQDQde3sWy— s (@x_sxls) May 29, 2019
For stans (and their friends that don’t understand):
me: explaining my friends who’ve
why Pirates of been hearing this
the Caribbean is same speech
the greatest since 2003:
masterpiece
in cinematic
history: pic.twitter.com/KrhoQTN2kT— KRISTY 🤡 (@AsToldByKristy) May 30, 2019
me explaining to
my mom that
another one of my
favourite characters
died and listing the
reasons as to why
they deserved better my mom pic.twitter.com/Bhd2XZ1H8c— gigi (@wiIIjem) May 23, 2019
me explaining
my love for
fictional characters
and celebrities locals pic.twitter.com/T2QnVlqWyO— ً (@sabastianstans) May 29, 2019
This one’s specifically for the Game of Thrones fans that can’t get over the GOT finale… Please sit.
Me explaining
why I
love sansa
stark so
much My mutuals pic.twitter.com/sw2d1ZQMBn— stella ︽✵︽ SAW ENDGAME x3 (@tonysassb) May 30, 2019
For the LGBTQ community as we race into Pride month:
me explaining
how important
the gay storyline
and sex scene
in booksmart
is and how much
it personally
means to me
to be represented
in a positive way my parents pic.twitter.com/gERLLBjWnx— jj (@lizzieluthor) May 28, 2019
And finally, some simplified versions of the meme:
me explaining to my bf my bf
how much i love him pic.twitter.com/1sf78tilWE— autumn rogers (@autumnnnnn7) May 27, 2019
me explaining to myself why i should stop procrastinating vs me procrastinating pic.twitter.com/LAbVdORmBP
— piulia (@kalopsiha) May 24, 2019