Better, Cheaper Haircuts Are Coming To A Barber Near You

About

Better, Cheaper Haircuts Are Coming To A Barber Near You is a copypasta that emerged in mockery of a Twitter user's commentary on a video made by YouTuber StuffMadeHere in which a robot performs a haircut. Many users felt the commentary about the video didn't match the quality of the resulting haircut and subsequently reposted the text with humorous images as it trended on X as a meme in late August 2023.

Origin

On July 14th, 2020, the YouTube channel StuffMadeHere posted a video featuring a hair-cutting robot, gaining over 7.7 million views in three years. The video was not intended to showcase a potential commercial-use robot replacement for professional barbers.

On August 20th, 2023, Twitter user @APompliano^[1] reposted the video on their Twitter account, writing, "Better, cheaper haircuts are coming to a barber shop near you. Fighting technological progress is a losing strategy, so you are better off embracing it." The tweet gained over 400 retweets, 3,600 likes and 2,400 quote tweets in one day.

Spread

The tweet quickly went viral on Twitter and was mocked by users who reposted the text and added humorous pictures. One of the most viral examples was posted on August 21st, 2023, by @SirajAHashimi^[2] in the replies to the original post, adding a picture of a guillotine to the text. The tweet gained over 40 retweets and 1,500 likes in less than one day.

The same day, user @raptorbreath^[3] posted the copypasta with a picture from Edward Scissorhands, gaining 24 likes in two hours (shown below, right).

As @APompliano's tweet spread, it received a Community Notes^[1] tab that read, "This robot was made for an experiment by YouTuber Stuff Made Here, it is not intended for commercial use and certainly not to replace human barbers. The haircut the man received was not cheaper than a regular cut, nor was it high quality" (shown below, left).

On August 21st, Twitter user @Richard57941301^[4] joked about the original video by sarcastically quipping, "looks like a relaxing comfortable experience," gaining over 480 retweets and 21,000 likes in 12 hours (shown below, right).

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