Sorry You're Not a Sigma
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Sorry You're Not a Sigma refers to a YouTube thumbnail depicting an old man staring forward with his fingers tented in front of his face next to the text, "Sorry you're not a sigma." The image was originally used as a thumbnail for a 2023 video by Achieving Success titled "10 Signs You Are NOT A Sigma Male" and became the subject of memes as an exploitable redraw format and reaction image throughout 2024.
Origin
On February 17th, 2023, YouTuber[1] Achieving Success posted the video "10 Signs You Are NOT A Sigma Male," garnering over 113,000 views in a year. The video's thumbnail features an old man staring forward and tenting his fingers next to the text, "Sorry you're not a sigma."
The thumbnail became the subject of memes throughout 2024. On February 10th, 2024, X[2] user @Archful_ posted an edit of the thumbnail altering the text to read, "Not sorry⦠you're a sigma," garnering around two likes in eight months. This is the earliest known edit of the thumbnail.
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On March 9th, 2024, the thumbnail was added to GameBanana[3] as a Team Fortress 2 spray mod. On May 9th, X[4] user @whte0wl posted a redraw of the thumbnail with a Regretevator0 character that garnered over 400 likes in five months.
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TexanDedede
Oct 01, 2024 at 11:22AM EDT
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