About

Hey Beter and Hey 🅱eter refer to a series of images, comic strips, and remix videos in which a character addresses Peter Griffin from Family Guy with "Hey Peter," only in writing, the "P" in Peter is replaced with the B Button Emoji. The comics are generally deep fried and reference Black Twitter memes such as Spell ICUP Nigga. They can also feature phrases and advertisements unrelated to the comic.

Origin

On July 19th, 2016, YouTube user Bubble Rick posted a heavily-distorted video of Peter Griffin walking while distorted audio of the character Joe Swanson saying "Hey Peter" repeated over and over again (shown below). The video has gained over 33,000 views as of March 16th, 2017.

Spread

The video would go on to inspire similar creations on Instagram four months later. On November 4th, 2016, Instagram user hyporcite^[1] posted a video of a doll resembling Joe Swanson with the audio of Joe repeatedly saying "Hey Peter." The following day, more edits began appearing on YouTube. One popular edit by Nick Sexton using a clip of Joe singing the theme from American Dad gained over 24,000 views.

Shortly after the influx of YouTube and Instagram videos, photo edits began appearing on Instagram. One of the earliest was posted by thicc_garlic^[2] on December 22nd, introducing both the 4-panel comic template and the B Button Emoji which would become popular in future edits (shown below).

Over the following months, "Hey Beter" edits began appearing with increasing frequency on Instagram. Many were created by the page cancer_supreme,^[3] including a popular edit that mashed up Elmo from Sesame Street and Whomst that gained 1,300 likes on their page and was reposted to several other meme pages.

Various Examples

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