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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