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"The Fuck You Are" is a memorable line of dialogue spoken by Jason Bateman's character Sandy in the 2013 film Identity Thief in response to Melissa McCarthy's character wanting to eat large quantities of food after he's instructed her to eat less. A subtitled screenshot of Bateman saying the line became the subject of image macros in 2021, particularly on Facebook.

Origin

On February 8th, 2013, the comedy film Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy was released in North America. The plot of the film sees Bateman travel to Florida to confront a woman who has stolen his identity, played by McCarthy. At one point in the movie, the two characters are eating in a restaurant. McCarthy tries to order a large quantity of food and Bateman responds angrily, "The fuck you are," after the order (shown below).

On December 30th, 2018, a GIF of the scene was uploaded to Tenor^[1] and used as a reaction (shown below).

On July 28th, 2020, Facebook^[2] page For Mommin' Out Loud posted an image macro using a screenshot of the scene about mothering, garnering over 45,000 shares and 11,000 reactions in a year (shown below). This is the earliest known use of the image in a meme.

Spread

The For Mommin' Out Loud meme was shared a number of times on Facebook,^[3] helping spread the format. On August 4th, 2020, another mothering Facebook^[4] page, Krazy Lady With All The Kids, posted another version of the same image macro, slightly changing the text, garnering over 47,000 shares and 3,600 reactions in 10 months (shown below).

The format began catching on outside niche Facebook^[5] pages in late 2020. For example, on December 2nd, 2020, iFunny^[6] user LolaBit posted an image macro using the screenshot not related to mothering (shown below).

On January 11th, 2021, iFunny^[7] user SlanderAndCalumny posted an image macro from now-deleted Instagram page @larozzi20, garnering over 34,900 smiles in five months (shown below, left). On May 27th, Facebook^[8] page Thunder Dungeon posted an image macro using the image referencing the awkward shape of potato mashers, garnering over 15,000 shares and 62,000 reactions in a week (shown below, right). The image was originally created by Instagram^[9] user @Randy_ragnarok on April 11th.

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