About

Why Dis Nigga Look So Mad, also known as Why Dis 🥷🏿 Look So Mad 😭😭😭, refers to a photo from a TikTok photo slideshow showing two guys standing on a sidewalk at night. One guy's face is shrouded by a shadow and only his eyes are visible, making him appear evil or angry compared to the other boy whose face is fully visible. The photo became a Redraw art trend on Twitter / X in July 2024. As the meme spread, artists replaced the guys with characters from TV, movies, anime and video games, using their contrasting appearances to portray a difference in the personalities of the characters alongside the phrasal template Why Dis X Look So Mad.

Origin

On July 27th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @lilsleepyjp posted a photo slideshow that started with a photo of two boys standing on a sidewalk at night. The boy on the left's face is shrouded by a shadow and only his eyes are visible. The other boy's face is fully visible in the streetlight. The caption read, "why dis 🥷🏿 look so mad 😭😭😭," with the Black ninja emoji (🥷🏿) meaning the word "nigga" (shown below). Over four days, the slideshow received roughly 265,600 plays and 56,800 likes.

It's currently unknown if TikToker @lilsleepyjp is the person who took the original photo.

Spread

On July 28th, 2024, X^[2] user @funnyhoodvidss reposted the photo, gaining over 122,000 likes in three days. The tweet amassed quotes and replies in which other users redrew the photo with different characters. Currently, the first known redraw was shared by X^[3] user @Kx1T0_ on July 29th, who added Jujutsu Kaisen characters, gaining over 7,300 likes in two days (shown below, left).

Later on July 29th, X^[4] user @ZaLantwrn added characters from Zenless Zone Zero, gaining over 60,000 likes in two days (shown below, right).

The trend spread to other social media platforms as well, like another JJK redraw shared by Redditor^[5] gettingfreakyonfries to /r/Jujutsufolk on July 30th, 2024, gaining over 370 upvotes in a day (shown below).

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