Babe Please See a Psychiatrist

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About

Babe Please See a Psychiatrist refers to a Wojak comics meme format in which Aya Asagiri attempts to persuade her partner, who acts like he is a person from another era, to see a psychiatrist, to which he responds "I know." The format is an offshoot of Babe Please Stop and was popularized after a retrowave edit went viral in May 2021.

Origin

On May 9th, 2020, iFunny^[1] user iCarnage posted a Babe Please Stop meme in which Aya Asagiri pleaded with her partner, who imagined himself a detective in '80s Miami, to visit a psychiatrist, to which he responded, "I know" (authorship unconfirmed, shown below). The post received over 50,100 smiles in four months.

Precursor

Babe Please See a Psychiatrist is an offshoot of a larger Babe Please Stop meme format. The subformat was likely spawned by a viral ironic DaBaby meme originally posted by Facebook^[2] meme page Rappers In Peculiar Places on January 15th, 2021 (shown below).

Spread

In May and June 2021, the '80s Miami detective meme received viral spread online through multiple reposts. For example, May 10th and 26th and June 18th and 19th iFunny^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] reposts received over 50,000, 33,000, 27,600 and 27,600 smiles, respectively. A May 10th Reddit repost in /r/wordington^[7] gained over 1,100 upvotes, while a May 14th repost in ＲｅｃｙｃｌｅＢｉｎごみ箱 Facebook^[8] page gained over 1,900 reactions and 3,700 shares in four months.

On May 22nd, 2021, iFunny^[9] user Phantomm posted the earliest found derivative meme based on the format, a Drive meme that gained over 180 smiles (shown below, left). On June 9th, Redditor^[10] Nived_n posted a Taxi Driver version that gained over 680 upvotes in three months (shown below, right).

In the following months, the format saw further spread online, with several viral versions being posted. For example, on June 10th, Facebook^[11] page Mongol Shitposting posted a version that received over 100 reactions and 40 shares, with August 11th Reddit repost gaining over 3,700 upvotes in /r/196.^[12] On June 21st, 2021, Twitter^[13] user @OldPersonOnline posted a version that gained over 341,000 views, 4,700 retweets and 28,100 likes (shown below).