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DYKTMM is a slang expression that is an abbreviation of the question "Do You Know the Muffin Man?" The phrase references a scene from the 2001 Shrek movie in which Lord Farquaad is torturing Gingerbread Man. The slang grew popular online after Twitter / X user tweeted a screenshot of Gingerbread Man with the caption *"It’s always 'wyd' never 'dyktmm'".

Origin

On May 18th, 2001, the Dreamworks Shrek movie was released on theaters, which included a scene of Lord Farquaad torturing Gingerbread Man to get the whereabouts of the other fairytale creatures, who asks "Do you know the Muffin Man?" (DYKTMM). The scene was posted on November 19th, 2018, on YouTube^[1] by the @MOVIECLIPS channel, amassing more than 21 million views and 150,000 likes in six years.

The slang term dyktmm was first uploaded by X^[2] user @peytonstearns06 on February 28th, 2021, who added a screenshot from the Gingerbread Man getting tortured scene, captioning as "It’s always 'wyd' never 'dyktmm'". The tweet (seen below) received more than 326,000 likes and 66,000 reposts in three years.

Spread

The slang grew popular online, often paired with jokes and memes about the Shrek movie scene. For example, on January 8th, 2023, Redditor^[3] C-Buckets123 posted a screenshot of a text message conversation using dyktmm and other acronyms of the Gingerbread Man getting tortured dialogue to see if the girl gets the reference (seen below, left), amassing roughly 158 upvotes and 9 comments in a year. On April 14t, 2024, X^[4] user @lobotomizdsloth posted a drawing of Shrek crucified like Jesus alongside the caption "Some days…you're gonna feel like Quasimodo, but don't be like Quasimodo y'all, be like Shrek. 'It's always WYD and never DYKTMM?'" The post (seen below, right) received more than 10 likes and 1 reposts in four months.

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