About

"This Nigga Eating Beans" is a copypasta and catchphrase based on a deleted tweet by Twitter user @alaskancarl1. The full text reads, "I spilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted 'this nigga eating beans' & everyone laughed." Online, people post either the full text verbatim or just the phrase "this nigga eating beans," which serves as the punchline to various jokes.

Origin

On June 20th, 2017, Twitter user @alaskancarl1 tweeted,^[1] "I I spilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted 'this nigga eating beans' & everyone laughed." Before being deleted, the post (shown below) received more than 10,000 retweets and 28,000 likes.^[2]

Spread

On June 28th, 2017, YouTuber uploaded a video of Big Man Tyrone reading the tweet. The post (shown below) received more than 24,000 views in less than one year.

Following the tweet, people began re-posting the story, making minor adjustments, in some cases, to which Cars movie the author was seeing (examples below).

On October 13th, 2017, the website Narp Chronicles^[4] called the tweet "the greatest tweet of all time."

On January 13th, 2018, Redditor ^[3] bait223 posted the image of the controversial H&M ad Coolest Monkey in the Jungle with the text of the tweet on the boy's shirt in the /r/dankmemes subreddit. The post (shown below, right) received more than 3,800 points (95% upvoted) and 45 comments.

Various Examples

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