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Siri, What's My Name refers to a series of jokes and videos of users of Apple's digital assistant Siri changing their name on the platform and forcing the system to say the name for humorous effect. In December 2019, examples of users changing their names to a collection of letters went viral.

Origin

On October 12th, 2011, Apple released the Siri digital assistant with iPhone 4s.^[1] Shortly after the release of the feature, on October 25th, 2011, YouTuber KIDBARRIO TV posted the video "'What's my name Bitch!? 'Iphone 4s Siri Funniest Response." The video features Siri reading a explative-laden name. Within 10 years, the post received more than 30,000 views (shown below).

Spread

In early 2012, Apple released a series of commercials promoting Siri users on the iPhone 4s. One of these commercials featured a character asking Siri to call him "Rock god" (shown below, left).^[2]

On February 22nd, 2012, YouTuber Matt Binder posted a parody of the commercial entitled "Douchebag Siri: the Fixed Apple iPhone Rock God Commercial." The post received more than 954,000 views in less than eight years (shown below).

On April 9th, 2014, YouTuber marbardan posted a series of remixes of a popular Vine of a man dancing to Siri reading their name, which they changed to "Vagina." Within six years, the post received more than 46,000 views (shown below).

On December 4th, 2019, Twitter user @raybelline tweeted a video of the user changing their name to laughter. They wrote, "i have been laughing at this since yesterday. please turn your volume up." Within one week, the tweet received more than 269,000 likes and 111,000 retweets (shown below).

i have been laughing at this since yesterday. please turn your volume up 😂 pic.twitter.com/SlTduFF2ff

— R a y n e l l e B . (@raybelline) December 5, 2019

Following the post, others posted variations of the meme. On December 5th, Twitter user @uwuskyee posted a variation that received more than 86,000 views, 2,400 likes and 335 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

Twitter^[3] published a Moments page on the meme. On December 10th, 2019, the website Junkee^[4] posted an article about the meme.

BRO 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/Q7tqub46o2

— skye☃️ | SAW SUPERM IN DC (@uwuskyee) December 6, 2019

Various Examples

BRO 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/Q7tqub46o2

— skye☃️ | SAW SUPERM IN DC (@uwuskyee) December 6, 2019

pic.twitter.com/4C5nAXNi0d

— ٩( ᐛ )و 🎄 (@helloimgabbyy) December 6, 2019

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