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When Ancestry.com Says
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About
When Ancestry.com Says is a series of image macros in which the phrase sets up a joke about people of different ethnicities performing stereotypical actions of another race.
Origin
The earliest known usage of the meme was posted on February 10th, 2019 by Twitter [1] user @molliefounds (shown below). Above a photograph of four white women dancing, they wrote, "when http://ancestry.com says you got black relatives.."
Spread
The meme continued to appear on Twitter, occasionally, over the next year. On April 21st, 2017, tweeted,[2] "When http://ancestry.com says I'm .0.00001% Jamaican." The tweet received more than 130 likes and 125 retweets in less than three years (shown below, left).
Months later, on February 25th, 2018, Redditor [3] Flutfar posted a variation that reads, "Ancestry.com: According to our DNA analysis you're 2% Jewish." The post received more than 5,900 points (97% upvoted) and 65 comments in less than two years (shown below, center).
The following year, on November 25th, 2019, Redditor[4] posted a variation featuring a screenshot from the television series The Mandalorian. Within 24 hours, the post received more than 91,000 points (94% upvoted) and 740 comments (shown below, right).
On November 25th, the website StayHipp[5] published a listicle on the memes.
Various Examples
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Twitter – @molliefounds' Tweet
[2] Twitter – @TheCosby's Tweet
[4] Reddit – /r/dankmemes
[5] StayHipp – ANCESTRY.COM DNA TEST MEMES
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