About

*Hits Blunt* is a catchphrase associated with a series of two-panel image macros that convey inane or absurd thoughts which may run through a person's head while under the influence of marijuana, especially when it is consumed in the form of a cannabis cigar (more commonly known as a "blunt"), typically accompanied by a photograph of a subject sporting a hooded sweatshirt and looking utterly confused in the typical fashion of a stoner.

Origin

The phrase *hits blunt* first began surfacing on Twitter in mid-September 2014, with the earliest known viral instance posted by Twitter User @JimJones^[1] on September 16th. Over the course of the next two months, the tweet garnered more than 4,400 retweets and 3,200 favorites (shown below):

On the same date of September 16th, hip hop entertainment and news magazine Complex^[2] picked up on the latest trend on Twitter, which showcased a small collection of tweets posted from earlier that day and likened the meme to the philosophical musings often shared by Will Smith's son and child actor Jaden Smith.

Precursors

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Spread

On the following day, the first single topic blog devoted to highlighting the growing collection of the meme was launched under the Twitter handle @HitsBlunt^[3], which went on to play an instrumental role in popularizing the meme beyond the sphere of Black Twitter. The first tweet from the account, which features the same photograph of a young black man looking very confused in a hooded sweatshirt, garnered more than 11,000 tweets and 9,000 favorites within the first months.

On September 17th, tweets associated with the phrase *hits blunt* began to draw the attention of major viral media, internet culture and hip hop entertainment news sites, leading to a slew of compilation posts from BuzzFeed^[4], FunnyJunk^[5], We Know Memes^[6], Watch Loud^[7], UpRoxx^[8], Run Rap^[9] and SoCawlege^[11] among many others, with many outlets declaring it the latest "stoner" meme to sweep across Twitter. On September 22nd, a single serving site was registered under the domain HitsBlunt.com^[10], followed by the launch of the first single topic blog on Tumblr on September 28th^[12].

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