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Anybody In This Thread Smoke Weed? is a phrasal meme on Tumblr in which people purposefully attempt to derail long, heated threads about bizarre topics by changing the subject with the phrase "Anybody in this thread smoke weed?"

Origin

According to Meme Documentation, ^[1] the first instance of the phrase was posted either on or slightly before July 30th, 2016 by deactivated account debthaver^[2] responding to a thread of people talking discussing a shitpost rumor about Anthony Fantano dying that gained over 1,700 notes (shown below).

Spread

Over the following year, the phrase was used in several other bizarre, heated, and shitpost-type threads in an attempt to derail the conversation. For example, a post from October 16th, 2016, reblogged by webfriend^[3] responds to a thread of vaguely romantic and lovelorn posts with the phrase. The entire post has gained over 65,000 notes (shown below, left). Another post by bepeu and reblogged by chloroform^[4] used the phrase in a post that overall gained over 73,000 notes (shown below, right).

Meme Documentation covered the meme on September 14th, 2017, though did not give a full explanation for the post as the meme originated in 2016. They included an example of someone responding with the phrase to a thread of people discussing Steven Universe and asexuality that gained over 85,000 notes (shown below).

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