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Drake Helps Lil Yachty With the Laptop is a video and GIF caption meme format based on a scene from a music video for Future's "Life Is Good" in which rapper Drake helps rapper Lil Yachty to solve a problem with his computer. In memes, Drake usually provides some common knowledge that the target of the meme has deliberately been choosing to ignore, with some examples implementing the misinterpretation humor. Initially circulated on Instagram as a video reaction meme, the clip regained popularity in GIF captions in March 2021.

Origin

On January 10th, 2020, a music video for American rapper Future's song "Life Is Good," featuring rapper Drake, premiered online.^[1] In the video, Drake, portraying a retail worker at a smartphone store, helps rapper Lil Yachty, portraying his coworker, with a certain problem on his laptop (1:06 mark, shown below).

On January 12th, 2020, Instagram and Twitter account @offthaweed posted a meme based on the scene, captioning it "Me showing niggas who pay for onlyfans/premiums that you can watch p--n for free" (original post no longer available, reupload^[2] shown below).

Spread

In mid-January 2020, @offthaweed's post was widely circulated on Instagram^[3] including a January 21st repost by hoodratchetv, which received over 22,900 likes and 324,700 views in one year.

In February 2020, this and another clip from the video gained popularity in memes on Instagram, with users captioning them in humorous ways. For example, on February 21st, 2020, Instagram^[4] account siimpstars posted a meme that received over 64,900 views and 19,700 likes in one year (shown below, left), with a February 22nd, 2020, repost by Instagram account hoodclips^[5] gaining over 1.8 million views and 243,000 likes in the same period. On February 29th, 2020, Instagram^[6] account fletcherfromwyoming posted a collection of four memes that gained over 1,700 likes (shown below, right). On March 24th, 2020, YouTube^[7] channel Quantum Dank posted a compilation of these memes.

On August 1st, 2020, Instagram^[8] account ajnosimp posted a meme that received over 4,200 likes (shown below, right, second slide). The meme received viral spread with multiple reposts in the following months.

The format saw a resurgence in popularity in early March 2021 on TikTok. For example, on March 2nd, 2021, TikTok^[9] user sebasbiggie posted the first known meme that used the video, captioning it "Me showing my dad how to clear is p--n history." The post received over 81,900 likes and 662,800 views in two months (shown below, left). The format received viral spread on the platform, with multiple versions posted in the following weeks, including posts by users 6ix9inesdadthatleft^[10] (32,500 likes, shown below, center) and q.tearz^[11] (13,500 likes, shown below, right).

A TikTok captioned "me showing YouTubers how to not message minors in sexual ways" created by an unknown user received viral spread online outside of the app, including reposts on iFunny^[12][13] and Reddit (shown below, left).^[14]

On April 10th, iFunny^[15] user ps2_majima posted a GIF caption based on the clip captioned "me showing phub.com to the guy who only looks at boobs on twitch.tv" (authorship unconfirmed, shown below, center). The GIF caption received viral spread online with reposts on Twitter^[16] and Reddit.^[17] On April 23rd, Redditor ToeTruckTheTrain posted a GIF caption that received nearly 50,000 upvotes in the /r/okbuddyretard^[18] subreddit in five days (shown below, right), triggering the viral spread of the format on Reddit in the following days.

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