Dont Talk to Me or to My Son Ever Again

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Posted on Mar xviii, 2016   Updated on May 27, 2021, ane:51 am CDT

Parents don't e'er get memes, only when the ii mix, it's typically comedic aureate. Similar when moms began figuring out what "Netflix and Chill" actually meant—or when 2015 became the twelvemonth of the Dad Joke.

Enter the latest trend: "Don't talk to me or my son e'er again."

First off, imagine where y'all'd hear the phrase "don't talk to me or my son ever over again." Perhaps the speaker's son—permit's call him Baton—got defenseless upwards with the neighborhood troublemaker and was busted smoking cigarettes in the Target parking lot or cartoon penises on a classroom door. When the mischief-maker knocks on Billy'due south front door, Billy's mom or dad is standing at that place with Billy behind them: "Don't talk to me or my son e'er once again."

According to Know Your Meme, the punchline was originated in a 2014 mail involving the anime Cowboy Bebop. Tumblr user splendidland uploaded an image of the graphic symbol Fasten Spiegel and a snack-size version of Spiegel with the words "don't always talk to me or my son always again" superimposed in ruddy font. (The character doesn't have a child in the serial, merely the idea is that this mini-me is the "son" in this context.)

Splendidland's post did fine on Tumblr, racking upward effectually 6,300 notes. A considerable success, but non what you would call viral.

Know Your Meme points out that the meme and so laid low for a while, then made a comeback with help from Yoshi. A Tumblr post from konkeydongcountry in Baronial 2015 featured two plush Yoshis, one larger than the other. This fourth dimension the caption was "don't y'all Always talk to me or my son that way over again"—tweaked slightly from the Cowboy Bebop post.

Shortly after, in Oct, the meme trickled over to Twitter, retaining its new Yoshi motif. Twitter user @yoshibot posted a pic of a life-size Yoshi costume and a Photoshopped version that makes information technology await shorter. The explanation better matched the Spiegel post, only differing by two words. "don't you lot always talk to me or my son once more" adds in the "you" but omits the "ever." All 3 incarnation accept the same bones bulletin simply are linguistically just a smidge removed from one another.

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Since the Yoshi posts, a steady meme-mentum has built. As of Feb and March 2016, the meme has exploded in popularity all over Tumblr And Twitter, even making it to the elusive meme groups of Facebook.

The phase e'er seems to vary—but you get the point. The meme typically hinges on a "son" who is just a tinier copy of the parent, unremarkably created through some sort of image editing. Many people have too simply turned themselves into the son. True mini-mes.

https://twitter.com/hyped_resonance/condition/702732450070278144

But, similar any good meme that takes over our dashboards and feeds, the thought mutates. Either people interpret information technology in a new light or discover another manner to exhibit the ethos of the meme. For example, people accept started to detect miniature versions of the parent IRL instead of editing the image.

Some have also constitute a manner to poke a fiddling fun at the subject area of the picture they're using. Case in point: identifying Justin Bieber as Ellen DeGeneres' son. He might non be physically smaller than the talk show host, but information technology totally looks like he'south descended from her lesbian lineage.

Another popular play on the meme features none other than Bernie Sanders and a pint-sized supporter and then dedicated that he might equally well be the presidential candidate's son: Danny DeVito.

There are also riffs where the bite-sized sons and their parent are deliciously hilarious.

https://twitter.com/SleepyJirachi/condition/705220900875051008

In other versions, the meme is just escalated to other levels. Like this son of a son of a son of a son… y'all get information technology.

There's no style to quite predict how the meme might evolve next. What we do know is that at that place'due south enough of overprotective "parents" out there on the Internet right now, keeping their sons safe and sound.

Photos via phtevenharrison/Twitter, SleepyJirachi/Twitter

*First Published: Mar 18, 2016, 3:04 pm CDT

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