About

What's Your Name Again? refers to a series of images describing the common occurrence of forgetting a person's name soon after meeting them. Although the first image referring to the phenomenon was posted in 2013, the topic rose to popularity on Reddit in 2019.

Origin

On March 31st, 2014, Tumblr^[1] user tus-memes posted an image of two business men shaking hands with the caption "Nice to meet you I already forgot your name" (shown below).

Spread

On October 22nd, 2016, Facebook^[2] group Gimme Memes posted an image of a woman looking confused with the caption "When you're introduced to people and forget all of their names immediately" (shown below, left). The image received over 942 reacts and 350 shares in three years.

On June 28th, 2019, Redditor wallawalla22 posted an Always Sunny Plate Toss image about forgetting someone's name to r/memes^[3] which accumulated over 5,900 points (98% Upvoted) in four months. On September 14th, Redditor DuccBro posted a confused Patrick Star with the caption "When you tryna remember the name of the person you just met even though you heard their name 5 seconds ago" to r/memes^[4] and gained over 400 points (99% upvoted) in two months.

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