Okay But That's Worse
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Okay but that's worse is a memorable quote uttered by the character Chidi Anagonye (played by William Jackson Harper) from NBC TV show The Good Place as a retort towards a statement made by main character Eleanor Shellstrop (played by Kristen Bell). This line, as well as its follow-up "You do get how that's worse, right?" came to be used as a reaction image online in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
Origin
The first episode from the first season of The Good Place, titled "Everything is Fine" was released on September 19th, 2016. Towards the middle, Eleanor reveals to Chidi that she shouldn't be in The Good Place with him and that a mixup must have happened with another person of the same name because she pretty much lived a depraved life. Chidi then asks what her job was, leading to the following exchange;
Chidi: So your job was to defraud the elderly? Sorry… the sick and elderly?
Eleanor: But I was very good at it. I was the top salesperson five years running.
Chidi: Okay, but that's worse. I mean, you… you do get how that's worse? Right?
The relevant scene is shown below.[1]
On November 20th, 2019, a now-deleted post on Reddit's[2] /r/me_irl saw the earliest known use of the Chidi's line as a reaction meme, with a November 30th, 2019 repost on Tumblr[3] blog hilarioushumorfromouterspace gathering over 100,000 notes in five years.
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On January 19th, 2020, Redditor[6] /u/Leftist4Life posted a meme to /r/PoliticalHumor that was reposted to /r/ABoringDystopia, where it gathered over 15,000 upvotes in four years.
On January 12th, 2021, Tumblr[7] page WhitePeopleTwitter gathered over 63,000 notes on a post that used the meme to react to news that Pelosi's younger staffers knew how to protect themselves from January 12th rioters due to their experience with school shooter drills.
On March 31st, 2021, X[4] user @KR1573N posted the image as a reaction to the headline, "Chauvin did what he was trained to do," gathering over 5,000 likes on a post in three years.
On December 12th, 2022, Redditor[5] /u/LordRhino08 made a post on /r/PoliticalCompass memes using the template, gathering over 1,800 likes in two years.
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External References
[1] YouTube – The Good Place
[3] Tumblr – hilarioushumorfromouterspace
[5] Reddit – /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
[6] Reddit – /r/ABoringDystopia
[7] Tumblr – the-privateer
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