About

Do Y'all Hear Sumn? refers to a Twitter meme in which people post image macros of cartoon characters, most often characters from Spongebob Squarepants, featuring captions of them conspicuously pretending as though they didn't hear a preceding statement. The images are most often used by Twitter users in replies to threads as a way express that they are ignoring the content in the original post or deem it unimportant.

Origin

On June 27th, 2018, Twitter user @Namastaywoke^[1] tweeted a joke about her body ignoring her healthy life choices, using an image of Squidward Tentacles from Spongebob Squarepants captioned "Do yall hear sumn?" The tweet gained over 49,000 retweets and 142,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

In the following month, the character began being used to reply in Twitter threads as a way to express that the original post was unimportant. Additionally, several more cartoon characters, many from Spongebob, were added to the meme. For example, in a Twitter thread by @Daddy_Warpig^[2] in which he offered his complaints about the She-Ra Reboot, several Twitter users posted examples of the "Did Yall Hear Sumn?" meme to express what they felt was the irrelevance of the poster's opinion (examples shown below).

Another notable example of the meme's use came in a thread posted by @Saycheese_media^[3] showing Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the Parkland Shooting, in police custody. In the ensuing thread, several Twitter users posted examples of the meme, several of which gained thousands of likes (examples shown below). Tumblr user chaosjudgment^[5] posted a compilation of the memes on August 27th, gaining over 3,500 notes. The spread of the meme was covered by Select All^[4] on September 7th, 2018.

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