He A Little Confused, But He Got The Spirit

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He A Little Confused, But He Got The Spirit is an image macro from a 1992 episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air which is used as a reaction image to situations which is well-intended but executed improperly. The image which includes Will Smith's line, "He a little confused, but he got the spirit" began circulating as an image macro on Reddit in 2019.

Origin

In 1992, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode titled "Those Were the Days" aired.^[5] During the episode a new classmate nicknamed cornflake says "Yes! Power to the people! Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!" to which Will says "All right, my man Cornflake got the spirit. He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit." On May 1st, 2019, Redditor RandomStupidClips posted the reaction image paired with a tweet to r/memeeconomy^[1] (shown below). The image received over 260 points (97% upvoted) in five months.

Spread

On August 25th, 2019, Redditor Willyyum2 used the image macro in an image paired with a text conversation to r/memes.^[2] The post accumulated over 9,600 points (98% upvoted) in a month (shown below, left). On September 10th, Redditor Jvelo28 posted an iteration to r/dankchristianmemes^[3] which garnered over 120 points (97% upvoted) in 28 days (shown below, center). On September 21st, Redditor oim8itsmeme paired the image with an Area 51 news headline in a post to r/memes^[4] (shown below, right). The image gained over 114 points (99% upvoted) in 17 days.

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