About

The Lil G Photo, also known as the Houston Resident or the San Antonio Grim Reaper, refers to a photograph of Latino influencer Lil G (also known as _lilg4 or Guillermo Romero) standing in front of a red brick wall and wearing a black T-shirt. Lil G notably has an Edgar haircut in the viral image and is shown looking at the viewer. Lil G is most known for the 4 5 Shots and "Back in Blood Challenge" dance trends on TikTok. The photo of Lil G in front of the brick wall became an exploitable in early 2025. Meme creators randomly placed the image into different meme templates. Its memetic use is mostly due to two memes: a tweet that captioned the photo, "The last thing you see before getting shot in Texas," and a quote tweet in which the Lil G photo was out of place in a New York Post headline about COVID, with the quote reading, "WTF that nigga in the corner gotta do with anything?" Both memes were reposted across social media platforms like Twitter / X, Instagram and TikTok in the early 2020s, notably spreading en masse in April 2025 on Instagram.

Origin

On July 18th, 2021, TikToker^[1] Lil G (@_lilg4) posted a video that was a part of his ongoing "Back in Blood Challenge," receiving over 211,300 likes in four years (shown below).

Lil G also shared the video on X^[2][3] July 22nd, gaining over 1,400 likes in four years.

The first frame in the X video showed Lil G in front of a red brick wall, staring blankly into the camera, without the text overlay seen in the TikTok (shown below).

On July 23rd, 2023, X^[4] user @CaligulaFlacko tweeted the photo of Lil G, captioning it, "Last thing you see before you get shot in Far East El Paso," gaining over 4,300 likes in two years (shown below). It is currently the first known use of the photo in a meme.

Spread

On August 7th, 2023, X^[5] user @spo9globoob tweeted a cropped and moldy screenshot of an unknown tweet that captioned the Lil G photo, "THE LAST THING YOU SEE BEFORE GETTING SHOT IN TEXAS," gaining over 20,000 likes in two years (shown below).

On June 1st, 2024, Instagram^[6] user @foosgonewild shared a similar meme with the caption, "The last thing you see before getting blasted in Texas," gaining over 80,100 likes in 10 months.

Lil G reposted the abovementioned meme to Facebook^[7] on June 2nd.

On August 8th, 2024, Redditor Fadedthepro shared a fake quote tweet of a New York Post article to the /r/NonPoliticalTwitter^[8] subreddit, which showed Lil G in the bottom right corner, captioned, "WTF that nigga in the corner gotta do with anything?" Over eight months, the post received over 2,800 upvotes (shown below). It is the meme's first known upload currently.

On October 27th, Instagram^[9] user @squidyz shared a meme that inserted Lil G into the bottom right of a meme reading, "Only legends use this heart filter," gaining over 5,400 likes in six months (shown below).

On April 5th, 2025, Instagram^[10] users @freakymailapplication and @yungstarbeam shared a meme, showing the Lil G Photo four times with the caption, "Multiple choice questions be like," gaining over 79,500 likes in 17 days (shown below).

On April 11th, Instagram^[11] user @dropaxaninmyyfaygo posted a meme with the image, captioned, "Niggas when hear you say the call say you or nigga," receiving over 7,700 likes in 11 days (shown below).

On April 16th, 2025, X^[12] user @nuggetfell tweeted a screenshot of their Instagram "Explore" page, writing, "Getting really into algomaxxing my Instagram feed for Chiikawa but I can't get the Houston Resident off my feed no matter what." The screenshot showed a Lil G meme with the slang terms TS and Gurt written in Papyrus font. Over six days, the tweet gained roughly 73,000 likes (shown below).

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