About

Just Saw Someone My Age Being Extremely Talented, Day Ruined, is an exploitable catchphrase and image macro meme based on a viral X / Twitter post made by user @DoctorPissPants in November 2020 that reads, "Just saw someone my age being extremely talented, my day is ruined."

The post was made on November 13th, 2020, and spread over the following years through reposts. In 2023, the phrase was attached to an image of a cup of coffee as an image macro, which became the subject of edits as an exploitable meme format over the following years.

Origin

On November 13th, 2020, X^[1] / Twitter user @DoctorPissPants posted, "Just saw someone my age being extremely talented, my day is ruined," garnering over 495,000 likes and 74,000 reposts in six years.

Spread

The post text spread over the next few years as a meme.

On September 20th, 2022, Redditor nonexisting-- posted a screenshot of a tweet reading the same thing to the /r/meirl^[2] subreddit, garnering over 13,000 upvotes in four years.

On October 16th, 2023, Redditor mand0_x posted a version of the meme to the /r/me_irl^[3] subreddit with the caption over an image of a cup of coffee, garnering over 33,000 upvotes in three years.

On October 19th, 2024, Instagram^[4] user thefilmmemes posted a version of the meme about dating a cinephile, garnering over 20,000 likes in two years.

On February 13th, 2026, X^[5] user @tufpraise posted a version of the meme using a reaction video that features several Breaking Bad clips, garnering over 67,000 likes in five months.

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