About

Gj04dl5539 refers to a viral video from the Indian soap opera Saath Nibhaana Saathiya in which a character is being confronted by his mother after she finds out he was involved in a car accident. The mom’s clip shouting the car's license plate became an exploitable image macro meme in early March 2023, spreading across the globe on TikTok in December of the same year as people referred to the video as Elon Musk's Wife Scolding Her Kid.

Origin

On March 3rd, 2023, the Instagram^[1] page @bollywoodshitposts shared a clip from the Indian soap opera Saath Nibhaana Saathiya in which the character Kokila Ben is shouting her son’s car's license plate “GJ 04 DL 5539” after she discovered he was involved in an accident. The post (shown below) amassed more than 42,000 likes and 86,000 shares in 10 months.

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The scene then became an exploitable image macro format on Reddit^[2] on March 7th, 2023, as Redditor thugeshh posted the scene paired with the overlay text “Elon Musk's Wife Scolding Her Kid,” which amassed over 400 upvotes and six comments in 10 months (shown below).

On December 19th, 2023, TikTok^[3] user @pencil_man3 shared the Indian soap opera meme paired with the overlay text (shown below, left) “NASA when they name a new planet.” The video amassed roughly 19,000 plays and 620 likes in three days. On December 20th, TikTok^[4] user @sillypavitr used the Gj04dl5539 meme to express how they recite their Wi-Fi password to a friend (shown below, right), which amassed more than 630 plays and 160 likes in two days.

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