About

Cyborg Orrin, also known as Orrin the Cyborg, refers to a man who believes he's a cyborg from the year 2050. Orrin first appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil with his mother in early 2020. Cyborg Orrin generated memetic spread mostly due to a meme that showed him on Dr. Phil with the caption, Niggas Just Lie For No Reason. The meme was used as a reaction image to humorously criticize people for lying on social media. In 2025, Cyborg Orrin memes and posts went viral on Twitter / X and elsewhere. His likeness was used without the Niggas Just Lie For No Reason catchphrase, creating an inside joke among netizens who were familiar with the original meme.

Online History

Before his appearance on Dr. Phil, Cyborg Orrin was a character in the Filthy Frank universe called Yung Upgrade or Roast Lord Mr. Negi 3000. He appears in the Filthy Frank video "FILTHY FRANK VS CHIN CHIN," uploaded to YouTube^[1] on November 26th, 2016 (shown below).

Cyborg Orrin was releasing rap music around the same time and uploading music videos to his YouTube channel realorrin. His first video on the YouTube^[2] channel was for his song "Perfect Blue," which he posted on June 11th, 2017. It amassed over 362,000 views in eight years (shown below).

Orrin also posted the video to his Instagram^[7] account @realorrin in June 2017.

On September 10th, 2018, Orrin walked for Telfar's Spring 2019 ready-to-wear show in New York City, as photographed by Vogue^[8] (shown below). He posted about it on his Instagram^[9] on the same day.

Dr. Phil Episode

On January 31st, 2020, season 18, episode 43 of Dr. Phil titled, "My Son Believes He's a Cyborg From the Future!" aired on American television. The episode's synopsis on IMDb reads, "Anita says that, after graduating from NYU, her 24-year-old son, Orrin, announced that he is a mechanized cyborg, who is part of a 'collective intelligence' that was sent back in time by 'higher beings' to warn humanity of the upcoming apocalypse."^[3]

Clips from the Cyborg Orrin episode were uploaded to YouTube^[4][5][6] by the Dr. Phil channel on January 31st, amassing over 12 million views, 6.5 million views and 5 million views, respectively, over five years (example shown below).

"Welcome To The Matrix" Series

On February 7th, 2020, Cyborg Orrin posted a YouTube^[10] video called, "Cyborg Orrin – Welcome to the Matrix (Ep 1)," which was the start of an ongoing series that would later involve interviews with celebrities and influencers. The video received over 620,900 views in five years (shown below).

Orrin interviewed people in character like YouTuber Shoenice22 and rapper Kreayshawn. His most viewed interview was with Neil deGrasse Tyson, which was uploaded to YouTube^[11] on February 5th, 2021, gaining over 342,00 views in four years (shown below).

Online Presence

Niggas Just Lie For No Reason

On September 27th, 2023, the Dr. Phil YouTube^[12] channel reuploaded a clip from Cyborg Orrin's 2020 episode, titled, "He Claims He’s a Cyborg from 2050." The same clip was posted to the Dr. Phil Facebook^[13] channel on the day.

A currently unknown meme creator, sometime in early March 2024, created a meme using a screenshot of the aforementioned Facebook post, adding an Instagram Story caption that read, "Niggas just lie for no reason" (shown below).

Its first discovered upload was on March 14th, 2024, by Instagram^[14] user @mysterious_elephant_entity who censored the N-word in their post, receiving over 930 likes in a year.

Later reposts used the original uncensored version, like one from Instagram^[15] user @youngthugfaceshotscompilation on April 17th, 2024, gaining over 51,700 likes in 11 months.

In the following months, Twitter / X users began using the Niggas Just Lie For No Reason meme as a reaction image. For instance, on July 15th, X^[16] user @Sonicadvanced2 quote tweeted a post from a user who claimed they always thought the silhouette in the Despicable Me logo was a head instead of Gru. The quote tweet received over 68,000 likes in eight months (shown below).

By 2025, internet users shared images and videos of Cyborg Orrin instead of the Niggas Just Lie For No Reason meme. However, the contextless images and videos were references to the Niggas Just Lie For No Reason meme.

A video of the camera panning around Orrin from the Dr. Phil episode also gained viral use in 2025, mostly used to portray predicting the future. For instance, on March 9th, 2025, X^[17] user @hoodg3nius used the clip to caption another tweet that predicted Druski's Alleged Involvement in the Diddy Case, receiving over 151,700 likes in eight days (shown below).

https://t.co/80MnPiAFne pic.twitter.com/9UXjZLbIJ8

— 𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 🥷🏿 (@hoodg3nius) March 10, 2025

Following

By March 17th, 2025, Cyborg Orrin had amassed over 3,100 followers on X,^[18] over 16,400 followers on Insatgram^[19] and over 53,000 subscribers on YouTube.^[20]

Search Interest

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