About

You Guys Are Just Mean refers to an exploitable image of a teenager giving a powerpoint presentation wherein the main slide will state a potentially unpopular opinion while the subheading will read a variation of "You guys are just X."

Origin

The image originally read "I'm so tired give me an A" while the subheading read "Sad Students." The image was posted in various compilations of images showing "people who just don't care anymore" in the fall of 2015. For example, Pleated Jeans^[2] posted the image in such a compilation on October 14th, 2015 (shown below).

Spread

It was first posted to Tumblr on December 14th, 2016 by user stacypartin^[1] and gained over 730,000 notes. It began becoming an exploitable over a year later, in Spring of 2018. An early example of the exploitable variation made a point with Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' was posted by user mutsukin in March of 2018 and gained over 64,000 notes, though the original post has been deleted (shown below, left). Another popular post from March of 2018 using the Legend of Zelda game Skyward Sword gained over 9,300 notes (shown below, right).

Other popular posts posts include a post from April 4th by user @pupcraft that went viral on Twitter made a point about dogs and cats gained over 67,000 retweets and 158,000 likes (shown below, left). Another popular post from Imgur made a point about Ready Player One (shown below, right)

Various Examples

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