About

Me In Public / My Earphones refers to a series of tweets which use two pictures, one an intimidating image of French rapper JNR with photoshopped air pods in his ears, representing "me in public," and the other a screenshot of an upbeat, feminine pop song.

Origin

The image of JNR comes from the French prank show, Le Pire Stagiare, or "The Worst Intern," hosted by comedian Greg Guillotin. In an episode posted to YouTube on June 29th, 2020, Guillotin pranks rapper JNR by pretending to be an intern while displaying contemptible behavior. The video has been viewed over 11 million times on YouTube.

On August 4th, 2020, Twitter user @NotLineMary^[1] posted a still of JNR from the episode with air pods photoshopped in and a picture of Pop Smoke's song "44 Bulldog," captioning the picture, "Me in public / my headphones," gaining over 90 retweets and 310 likes.

Spread

Over the following days, Twitter users began posting their own iterations of the meme, usually using an upbeat pop song. For example, user @KeyWilliamss^[3] posted an example that used Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night," gaining over 4,400 retweets and 18,000 likes (shown below, left). User @MatthewACherry^[4] posted an example using "Fireflies" by Owl City, gaining over 6,700 retweets and 27,000 likes (shown below, right). The meme was covered in a Twitter Events^[2] page.

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