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

No, I'm not done explaining the secret meaning behind every Taylor Swift song, mom.

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Rachel Kiley

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Posted on May 31, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 11:29 am CDT

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.

https://twitter.com/wiIIjem/status/1131673004939849734

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

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

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.

https://twitter.com/avanaff/status/1134190414150324225

https://twitter.com/ryymoss/status/1133489927239491585

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.

https://twitter.com/eemmmmauel/status/1133435072667824128

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

https://twitter.com/LifeAtBagEnd/status/1132685144769351682

https://twitter.com/idiedinendgame/status/1134205317879881729

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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*First Published: May 31, 2019, 4:05 pm CDT

Rachel Kiley

Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

Rachel Kiley