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I'm Fine (I Hate the Floor) refers to an exploitable image featuring a young boy assuring to a group of men that they are fine whilst another seemingly identical child punches the floor in anger saying "I hate the floor." The meme was originally posted on Facebook in 2015 but was popularized on Reddit in October 2021, as well as receiving a voice-over version of the boy screaming the line "I hate the floor" in March 2022.

Origin

On August 19th, 2015, the original comic strip, titled "I'm Fine," was posted by the Egyptian artist "Shady Attab" on his Facebook^[1]. In the original post, the two young boys are the same person, lying to the adults about their current emotional state until another child runs to the boy with brown hair and hugs the frustrated version of him that's hitting the floor, afterwards the kid admits screaming that he was never fine. The post (shown below) amassed over 170 likes and 116 retweets in nine years.

The artist said later on March 27th, 2016, that he drew the initial idea for the comic strip when he was a teen (shown below) and that he didn't expect it would go viral without his name attached to it. The post^[2] amassed roughly 39 likes and 4 shares in eight years.

Spread

The comic strip's earliest instance as an exploitable arose on Reddit^[3] from a post by user u/satans_grandpa on October 22nd, 2021, to the r/196 subreddit. Before being archived, the post amassed over 1,900 upvotes and 12 comments in three years.

YouTuber and streamer Pewdiepie^[4] reacted sarcastically to the meme on July 22nd, 2020, in a meme reaction video (shown below, left), which amassed over 8 million views and 604,000 likes in almost four years. On December 16th, 2021, a video of a young boy voicing over the meme was posted on YouTube^[5] by user @forgottnwiththyme6870, which amassed over 96,000 views and 3,800 likes in three years.

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