About

"Something Wrong, I Hold My Head" is a snowclone template based on the 2010 Kanye West song "All of the Lights." The template, generally, features four panels with the lyrics to the song providing the captions. However, in the third panel, the lyrics are changed, replacing the line "M.J. Gone" with a rhyme specific to the image.

Origin

"All of the Lights" is based on the hit song by American rapper and producer Kanye West. Kanye's first verse in the song starts "Something wrong/I hold my head/M.J. gone/Our nigga dead." In December 2011, the song had sold more than 1.5 million digital copies and certified triple platinum.^[1] Since being uploaded to YouTuber on February 18th, 2011 the music video (shown below) has received more than 166 million views as of June 2017.

On June 29th, 2015, the social media account @Seinfeld2000 posted two their Instagram^[2] and Twitter^[3] accounts a four quadrant meme of the character George Costanza wearing a hat. In each image were one of the first four lines to "All of the Lights" with the caption "Costeezy." While the Instagram post (shown below) has been deleted, the Twitter post received more than 340 retweets and 700 likes within two years. Before being deleted, the Instagram post received more than 5,000.

Spread

Over a year after @Seinfeld2000's post, Redditor 1slinkydink1 posted a variation of the meme in the /r/Kanye subreddit. On July 5th, 2016, 1slinkydink1^[4] posted the same Costanza meme with the third image reading "Harambe gone" and a picture of a gorilla super imposed into the corner of the picture. Before being archived, the post received more than 1,700 points (91% upvoted) and 40 comments.

11 days later, on July 16th, Redditor SonOfHarambe^[5] posted the image on /r/Harambe subreddit, receiving more than 1,000 points (100% upvoted).

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