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Say Hi to the New Galaxy Note refers to a series of memes using a screenshot of a comment left under a video titled "Say Hi to the New Galaxy Note10" reading "Hi," the commenter taking the title of the video literally. The video was posted in 2019 and an image of the comment, left by YouTube user George Harris, started going viral that year on sites like Reddit. The screenshot later became the subject of memes on TikTok in late 2023, including as part of the Nothinglikeyallcore trend.

Origin

On August 7th, 2019, the Samsung Malaysia YouTube^[1] channel posted a video titled, "Say hi to the new Galaxy Note10," garnering over 2.1 million views in five years. On August 27th, Redditor u/spedoree posted a screenshot to /r/comedyheaven^[2] of a comment left on the video by user George Harris SR reading, "Hi," as if the user took the title of the video literally, garnering over 78,000 upvotes in five years (shown below).

Spread

The meme gained viral spread over the following years, inspiring further memes. On July 7th, 2020, u/milk_connoisseur23 posted a meme to /r/memes^[3] attaching a reaction image to the original screenshot, garnering over 28,000 upvotes in four years. On December 2nd, 2021, the original meme was reposted to /r/technicallythetruth,^[4] garnering over 250 upvotes in three years.

In late 2023, the image was further popularized through the nothinglikeyallcore meme on TikTok. For example, on October 24th, 2023, the image was included in a nothinglikeyallcore slideshow by TikToker^[5] @feberiner, garnering over 630,000 likes in 10 months.

On October 27th, TikToker^[6] @beetleplex posted a meme using the format that gained over 380,000 likes in 10 months (shown below).

Various Examples

@dilanas_tech I hope the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ is happy now #sayhitothenewgalaxynote #sayhitothenewgalaxynote10 #sayhito #hi #youtube #samsung #techtok #lol #random #fyp ♬ I Am – Club Yoko

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♬ sonido original – Tono

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