![Ima Keep It Real With U Chief Ima Keep It Real With U Chief](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/026/735/Screen_Shot_2018-07-19_at_3.02.54_PM.jpg)
Ima Keep It Real With U Chief
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About
Ima Keep It Real With U Chief refers to an image macro of Kermit the Frog appearing to console fellow Muppet Pepe the King Prawn with the text "Ima Keep It Real With You Chief!!" followed by an uncomfortable truth. The image spread primarily in deep fried with different captions.
Origin
The earliest known post of the meme appeared on the Facebook page Space Friends on January 14th, 2016 (shown below).[1] However, the watermark on the image suggests it was created by Instagram user icyunvme_echols, which is locked, meaning it was likely created sometime before then.
![Original IMA KEEP IT REAL WITH U CHIEF! UUGLYAS F--- BRAH IIU GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR SOME P----](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/987/303.jpg)
Spread
The picture started seeing use in deep fried memes over a year later. Twitter user @bigguccialec[2] posted a deep fried variation of the image on May 8th, 2017 (shown below, left). Another Twitter-specific variation was posted by user @palacepjm on December 28th, 2017 (shown below, right).
![Big Gucci Alec IMA KEEP IT GONHA IIAVE TO PAY FOII SOME POSSY](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/988/147.jpg)
![Twitter IMA KEEP IT REAL WITH UCHIEFlle Ain't n obody retweeting that s---](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/992/50f.jpg)
The template reached the height of its popularity in the spring of 2018, as the variations began getting more surreal. For example, a post circulating on Tumblr grew popular with a variation in which Kermit says, "I have a gun in my ass," gaining over 36,000 notes there.[3] A screenshot of the post to /r/Tumblr gained over 390 points (shown below, left). On May 18th, 2018, an Imgur post referencing the Yanny or Laurel debate gained 29 points (shown below, right).
![Gun in my ass REI R tilthat IL TIL in 2013 a Chicago man told police who pulled him over "l'm gonna be real with you, I have a gun in my ass." The cops then found a un in his aSS via reddit.com Θ anarenza IMA KEEP IT REAL WITH U CHIEFI il have a gun in my ass](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/994/491.jpg)
![Yanny or Laurel IMA KEEP I REAL WITH U CHIEFI nobody gives a s--- if you hear yanny or laurel](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/997/85a.jpg)
Various Examples
![No Clicks IMA KEEP IT REAL WITH U CHIEF Ain't nobody clicking that s---](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/998/3bd.jpg)
![No IMA KEEP IT REAL WITH U CHIEFL No.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/393/999/10c.jpg)
![Sad :( IMA KEEP IT REAL WITH U CHIEFL AM INCREDIBL AD TONIGHT](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/394/000/9f4.jpg)
![Truth IMA KEEP IT GREAL WITHU CHIEFLI ho FORTNITE Is ASS](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/394/001/ed8.jpg)
![Little With Academia IMA KEEPIT REAL WITHUCHIEFIL](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/394/003/815.jpg)
![Im U](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/394/005/954.jpg)
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