Black Man With Puffed Up Cheeks / Holding In Cough
Added by Phillip Hamilton • Updated about a year ago by Zach
![Black Man With Puffed Up Cheeks / Holding In Cough meme template and format depicting a guy inflating his cheeks with red sunglasses on.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/039/363/puffcover.jpg)
Type: Image Macro, Reaction,
Tags: me holding in a cough, me when i need to cough, black guy puffy cheecks, puffy cheeks sunglasses, supressing urge, trying not to laugh, bigwinnn, big winnn, big winnnnnnn, image macros, reactions,
![Black Man With Puffed Up Cheeks / Holding In Cough meme template and format depicting a guy inflating his cheeks with red sunglasses on.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/039/363/puffcover.jpg)
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About • Origin • Spread • Various Examples • Search Interest • External References • |
About
Black Man With Puffed Up Cheeks / Holding In Cough or Big Winnn Holding Breath refers to an image of rapper and influencer Big Winnn wearing red sunglasses and holding in a large breath, his cheeks extremely puffy as if resisting the urge to cough, laugh or react in an extreme way. The earliest known upload of the image as a meme is a post to Reddit in November 2020, inspiring memers to use it in image macros and as a reaction image in the following months and years.
Origin
On an unknown date prior to 2018, Instagram[2] rapper and influencer Big Winnn (@bigwinnnnnn now, @bigwinnn at the time of posting) posted an image to his Story of himself in red sunglasses holding back a huge breath, causing his cheeks to puff up comically (shown below).
![Big Winnn Holding In Breath puffy cheeks](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/475/831.jpg)
It is unclear who first used the image as a meme. One of the earliest examples was posted to Reddit's /r/meirl[6] board on November 27th, 2018, used to describe the feeling of holding in a cough, gaining over 40,700 upvotes in just over three years (shown below).
![when you're in class and feel the 40th cough coming on when you're in class and you just finished coughing 40 times and you feel another one coming](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/514/736.jpg)
Spread
On March 20th, 2020, Redditor LMAO-69-420 posted a meme using the image to /r/meirl[5] to describe the feeling of holding in laughter, gaining over 24,200 upvotes in just under two years (shown below).
![meirl My face when I see a funny meme My face when I think about that same meme the next day in school](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/493/32b.jpg)
On November 21st, Redditor cvzmir posted the image to /r/funny,[1] captioned, "The reaction right after stubbing your toe on the coffee table," and gained over 8,600 upvotes in just over a year.
![The reaction right after stubbing your toe on the coffee table The reaction right after stubbing your toe on the coffee table](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/480/eb6.png)
On November 21st, Twitter[7] user @wavydavhie posted a meme referencing Harry Potter using the image of himself, gaining over 500,000 likes and 89,000 retweets in just over a year (shown below, left). On November 22nd, Big Winnn posted the same meme to Instagram.[3] On the same day, Imgur[4] user shuuyacine posted a version of the meme using the image to describe stubbing your pinky toe, gaining over 104,000 views and 2,200 upvotes in the same span of time (shown below, right).
![how draco malfoy gets ready to pronounce the "p" in "Potter" How Draco Malfoy gets ready to pronounce the "P" in "Potter"](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/481/a24.png)
![this pic show us much pain When u hit yo pinky toe on the bed rail](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/482/710.jpeg)
Various Examples
![we all know the feeling TEACHER: EVERYONE BE QUITE IF I HEAR ONE PEEP YOU'RE GOING TO DETENTION MY BEST FRIEND: *LITERALLY EXIST* US: ifunny.co](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/496/d40.jpeg)
![Got this AirDrop yesterday at Disney’s California Adventure - Thought you guys might enjoy it. ll Verizon LTE 2:47 PM 1 83% AirDrop "Iphone" would like to share a photo. Decline Аcсept](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/497/da4.jpeg)
![sasuke i want your bod- Shonen Clout @shonenclout OROCHIMARU: Sassssuke I want your bod- SASUKE: Horse Serpant Tiger Ram Monkey Boar Horse Tiger 00 11/23/18, 2:04 PM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/515/569.jpeg)
![lady super sized bitch karl heisenberg getting ready to pronounce the B in "lady super-sized bitch" II](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/516/d6c.jpg)
![Invest in BiG OuCh | /r/MemeEconomy Parents in the middle of the night stepping on a lego U/MarketingCowboy](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/917/865/feb.jpg)
![covid be like When you feel a cough coming but you're in public and it's 2020 Imade with mematic](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/294/518/e47.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – The reaction right after stubbing your toe on the coffee table
[2] Instagram – bigwinnnnnn page
[3] Instagram – bigwinnnnnn
[4] Imgur – this pic show us much pain
[7] Twitter – harry potter meme
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Tags: me holding in a cough, me when i need to cough, black guy puffy cheecks, puffy cheeks sunglasses, supressing urge, trying not to laugh, bigwinnn, big winnn, big winnnnnnn, image macros, reactions,
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