About

He Scream At Own Ass refers to a picture of an opossum looking behind it with its mouth open. The phrase "He scream at own ass" comes from a comment on the image by Tumblr user yunghau5, and became associated with the image in further reposts of the image on social media.

Origin

On July 9th, 2014, Tumblr^[1] user yungterra posted a picture of a possum, captioning it, "look at this f--king opossum." The same day, they reblogged the post featuring a comment from yunghau5, who stated, "he scream at own ass." The post has gained over 226,000 notes.

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In the years following the post, it has been referenced in numerous jokes across social media. For example, on May 17th, 2017, Twitter^[2] user @RagenEggert posted the picture while quoting lyrics from Grease, gaining over 17,000 retweets and 36,000 likes (shown below, left). On September 7th, Redditor zooweemama1234981 posted a He Protec variation referencing the possum in /r/memes,^[3] gaining over 1,300 points (shown below, right).

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