Me, An Intellectual

Added 7 years ago by Adam • Updated 8 months ago by shevyrolet

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Friend: "Shego is the hottest animated girl!" Other friend: "No way, it's obviously Princess Kida" Me, an intellectual:

Co-WORKER: “OMG! Can you believe Ted Bundy!" Me (an intellectual): Elizabeth Bathory H.H. Holmes Dennis Rader Jeffery Dahmer

cooking instructions: boils for 10 to 15 minutes me, an intellectual: boils for 12,5 minutes EndsNy u/mama_byakuren

Parker @panoparker Friend 1: "Where's the best place to stand during an earthquake?" Friend 2: "A doorway, a car, under the bed?" Me, an intellectual:

My friend: The hardest puzzle to solve is the Rubik's cube Me, an intellectual:

Some idiots: Insects can't be cute Me an intellectual:

About • Origin • Spread • Examples •

Category: Meme Status: confirmed Year: 2016 Origin: Tumblr Region:

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Tags: tumblr puns intellectual smart wrecknian cryomatic

About

Me, An Intellectual is a popular dialogue snowclone on Tumblr in which the character "me, an intellectual" uses needlessly formal language to correct well-known colloquial phrases (i.e. calling a "Slim Jim" a "Slender James").

Origin

On June 6th, 2016, Tumblr user wrecknian^[1] posted a text post that reads "me, an intellectual: (passing my buddy a slim jim) would you care for this Slender James?" The post has gained over 115,000 notes as of December 15th, 2016.

me, an intellectual: *passing my buddy a slim jim* would you care for this Slender James?

Spread

Over the course of the next several months, posts featuring the "Me, an intellectual" character spread widely on Tumblr, the meme evolving to include a character that "me, an intellectual" would correct. On October 3rd, 2016, Buzzfeed^[2] posted a listicle of some of the funnier examples on Tumblr. On October 16th, Reddit user Cryomatic^[3] posted a screenshot of an argument about the grammar in "me, an intellectual" to /r/Tumblr in a post that gained 370 points. The dialogue,^[4] shown below, has over 114,000 notes on Tumblr.

corn-free-awesomesauce The best part of 'me, an intellectual is that the grammatically correct pronoun would be ihamtmus you: me, an intellectual me, an intellectual:, an intellectual kirby-ebooks hi where the f--- do you think that fragment is getting nominative case. listen to me. subjects of transitive verbs in nom-acc languages get nominative case by agreeing with a tense node. are you listening. fragments are accusative in english because that's the default case when there's no case-assigning node meet me in the pit behind the denny's and i will explain this to you. bring a whiteboard wishaming you: The best part of 'me, an intellectual is that the grammatically correct pronoun would be l kirby, a linguist: meet me in the pit behind the denny's and i will explain this to you. bring a whiteboard Source: technicolor-we 74,836 notes

Various Examples

skippyreturns tumbl Follow you: imma eat that p---- me, an intellectual: i shall dine upon this feline

daughtersofthanos tumbl Follow You: LevioSA Me, an intellectual: LeviOsa

tentacleauxiliatricks tumbl Follow You: f--- off Me, an intellectual: intercourse away

aggressively-awkward tumbl Follow You: later gator Me, an intellectual:the future holds a large reptile

themoskabot tumbl Follow You: Sloppy Joes Me, an intellectual: Untidy Josephs

kagedyams tumbl Follow someone: wet willy ist william

Search Interest

External References

^[1] Wrecknian via Wayback Machine – Original Me an Intellectual

^[2] Buzzfeed – 20 Times Tumblr Was Intellectual AF

^[3] Reddit – Me, an intellectual

^[4] Tumblr – All Things Linguistic

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Comments ( 6 )

Jokes Joestar 👌ꙮ - 7 years ago

I've seen tons of examples of this on Tumblr, so…
You: +1 Work
Me, an intellectual: I would recommend that you labor to add more content to this page.

+8
Phhase - 7 years ago

As a pedant with a needlessly large and sesquipedalian vocabulary, I find this meme riotous.

+13
FanglyFish - 7 years ago

Reminds me of Archaic Rap, which I love. +1 Work.

+2
Some Guy - 7 years ago

Tumblr wins.
Again.

-8
Elbough Le Zoreil - 7 years ago

vous : "casse-couille"
moi, un intellectuel : "orchidoclaste"

0
Hyval the Emolga - 6 years ago

You, a communist dictator: We have seized power, comrades

Me, a dissenting intellectual: cannot add anything because I was executed

+19