We Irritating

About

We Irritating or #WeIrritating,refers to an image of two girls covering their hands with their face with the caption "We Irritating 😂😂😂." The image became an exploitable most popular on Twitter and Instagram in March of 2019, as people edited the photo and changed the caption.

Origin

The picture was posted to Snapchat in a story by user lil baby (shown below). It first appeared on Pinterest on April 8th, 2017.^[1] According to Twitter user @paigesimonex_, the women featured in the tweet are Twitter user @_fatoumarie and her friend identified as Mckayla.^[2]

Spread

The image began spreading as a meme in March of 2019. One of the earliest known parodies of the image was posted March 15th by Twitter user @lorenshtarkey (shown below, left). On Twitter, the meme was a popular exploitable in the K-Pop community. On March 18th, Twitter user @videoswithkpop started a long thread with multiple edits, gaining over 400 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, right).

The meme was also very popular on Instagram. Some popular posts include a post by crybabygrande that referenced Go Crazy Go Stupid (shown below, left) and a post by robloxbaddieregina that imagined the pair as Roblox characters (shown below, right).

@_fatoumarie twice tweeted her surprise and discomfort with the picture being used as a meme, quoting viral Twitter threads compiling numerous examples (shown below).

Various Examples

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