Never Before Have I Been So Offended By Something I One Hundred Percent Agree With

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"Never Before Have I Been So Offended By Something I One Hundred Percent Agree With" is a memorable quote uttered by stand-up comedian James Acaster in his 2018 comedy special Repertoire. Online, a reaction image of Acaster saying the line has been used to express the feelings of experiencing and accepting a hard truth.

Origin

On March 27th, 2018, Netflix released the four-part comedy special Repertoire^[1]. During the section known as the "Banana Revenge Fantasy," Acaster says, "Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with" (shown below).

The earliest known usage of the scene as a reaction image macro was posted on the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit by Redditor ^[2] Edmenz on March 12th, 2019. The post, which was captioned "Friend: You will never make a successful new format for memes." The post received more than 520 points (97% upvoted) in less than one year (shown below).

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Three days later, Redditor^[4] Theophistocles shared a variation of the meme with the caption "When my friends tell me I'll never have a life because all I do is look at Reddit." The post received more than 4,500 points (97% upvoted) in less than one year (shown below, left).

On July 18th, 2019, Redditor^[3] icametogivememes posted the image underneath a CNN tweet that reads, "Military officials say that they aren't taking the Area 51 threat seriously because 'millennials are too depressed to get out of bed.'" The post received more than 129,000 points (98% upvoted) and 785 comments in less than seven months (shown below, center).

Later that year, Redditor^[5] CorruptedMeth shared a variation in which the image responds to a joke about Gamer President Ace Watkins. The post received more than 10,000 points (96% upvoted) in less than four months (shown below, right).

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