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"It's a Meme, You Dip" is a phrase from a viral YouTube video which has been adopted online as a response to someone who shows confusion towards a typically well known internet meme. The phrase is used both in a serious and satirical manner.

Origin

The phrase originated from the YouTube video "Kid has major freak out at school" (shown below), which was posted by YouTuber PatrickBobo29 on January 26th, 2013. In the video a middle-schooler is seen arguing with the camera man over Hello? Yes this is dog. The phrase was initially seen in a cringeworthy light. The boy argues about Internet culture, primarily the merits of 4chan, /b/, Reddit, Apple and more. The video has since been rmoved, but as of its final archiving^[6] on October 1st, 2014, it had been viewed more than 793,000 times.

Spread

On August 9th, 2014, an anonymous 4chan^[1] user linked the video on the site's /b/ board. The thread entitled "So this is your average /b/tard? I am cringing so bad." received more than 300 comments before being deleted.

Several months later, on December 14, 2014, youtuber Filthy Frank discussed the video on his "Cringe of the Week" series on his alternate account TooDamnFilthy^[2].

Following Filthy Frank's video, on December 26th, 2014, a Facebook page^[3] dedicated to showcasing individual image edits of the phrase was created. The page has since been deleted.

On January 2nd, 2015 the original video was submitted to the /r/montageparodies^[4] subreddit. Five months later, the video was posted to the /r/4chan subreddit, receiving more than 300 points (87% upvoted) in two and a half years. The following year, on January 27th, 2016, Redditor^[7] McDodley posted it on the subreddit /r/CringeAnarchy.

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