‘Me Explaining’ meme shows what moms put up with from their kids

We’ve all got our topics we could give a full-blown TED Talk on at a moment’s notice to an empty room. And we all know exactly what it feels like to start talking about those things to the people in our lives only to feel like we might as well be talking to an empty room.

Naturally, there’s a meme for that.

People have started pairing up a screenshot of YouTuber and ex-Viner Quenlin Blackwell looking like she’s tearfully explaining something with a photo of Ms. Juicy from Little Women: Atlanta looking up with a numbingly blank stare.

Together, these shots have formed the basis of a meme aiming to convey how it feels to care passionately about something only to have somebody…not care so passionately.

And they’re pretty relatable.

me explaining
my love for Yvie
Oddly and how
happy i am 4 her My mom #dragracefinale pic.twitter.com/jTUP6CnI1p

— siren (@17tshirt) May 31, 2019

me explaining to my mom
how her son is also capable
of washing dishes and
performing other house
hold duties: my mom: pic.twitter.com/Uw7lcVwyac

— Jackie (@Itsjackalacka) May 31, 2019

me: explaining to my mom:
my mom that i have
best friends on
the internet that aren’t
trying to catfish me pic.twitter.com/RC2OqzyJ7k

— shelby⚡️ (@evergreenexile) May 30, 2019

https://twitter.com/pashmola/status/1133532274937479169

https://twitter.com/sixtwokev/status/1132359701981814785

Me explaining to my
mom the Tati James
Charles Jeffree star
drama: My mom: pic.twitter.com/BYsl3E9pTV

— Mr.C (@maggiecurran_) May 24, 2019

me explaining to my my mom
mom why endgame
hurt me so much
and why i need to see
it again pic.twitter.com/RmHpFa29S6

— ash (@aritoowell) May 30, 2019

But even though the me/mom format fits the photos well, this meme isn’t just for parents and kids. As we all know, there are plenty of people in our lives who are more than willing to give us The Blank Stare if we go on for too long about something they could never understand the way we do.

me explaining
why i do not
deserve to be
happy and why
i am unworthy
of love: me: pic.twitter.com/3a7OSjEAyb

— jonny sun (@jonnysun) May 31, 2019

And sometimes the entity we’re explaining to doesn’t even need to be a person. Actually, sometimes these are the MOST relatable of all.

me explaining
a song I heard
years ago only
knowing the melody google pic.twitter.com/pCXHHH8e3i

— Elizabeth Zaks (@ElizabethZaks) May 29, 2019

But of course, where there’s an excellent meme, creativity will inevitably continue to bubble over, shifting it even further from its original form.

DON’T YOU
SWEAR AT ME
YOU LITTLE SHIT!
DON’T YOU EVER
RAISE YOUR VOICE
AT ME
I AM YOUR MOTHER!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?? pic.twitter.com/qY5yTfEnkB

— min (@hailpaimin) May 30, 2019

me explaining to my
mom why we should
switch to non-dairy my mom pic.twitter.com/manZxuo5a4

— luis (@lluquiin) May 29, 2019

2023 nebula telling
past gamora about
everything that
happened to her
in the future: 2014 gamora: pic.twitter.com/P35N4eTJ4k

— follow @yelenaspugh (@peterquillsI) May 26, 2019

But one thing every iteration of this meme has in common is…maybe we should all find people who are a little more interested in the things we care about.

Nah. They’ll learn. Maybe we should explain a little more.

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