Day 2 No Hating / Guy Screaming on the Floor

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Day 2 No Hating, also known as Guy Screaming on the Floor, is a reaction image of a guy on his knees, screaming on his bedroom floor with both of his hands on his head, covering his face. The original TikTok video had text overlay reading, "day 2 no hating," and was posted by TikToker @dampsausage772 (formerly known as @emporershmingleblorp) in late 2022. The screenshot of him screaming on the floor with the catchphrase above him went viral across social media platforms soon after, later becoming a notable Twitter reaction within quote retweets and replies going into early 2023. The image was also recaptioned by many meme creators who replaced and added words to the original caption.

Origin

On September 15th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @dampsausage772 (formerly known as @emporershmingleblorp) uploaded a video that had text overlay reading, "day 2 no hating," in which he fell to his knees on his bedroom floor, put his hands over his face and screamed, coinciding with the video's sound. Over the course of nine months, the video gained roughly 646,200 plays and 151,900 likes (shown below).

On September 17th, 2022, Instagram^[2] user @gorillagripcoochie69 posted the first discovered screenshot of the TikTok, gaining roughly 7,700 likes in nine months (shown below, left). A few days later, on September 20th, Instagram^[3] user @taylorlorenz3.0 posted a different screenshot, capturing the moment when he's on his knees screaming with the text caption still visible (shown below, right). The post gained roughly 1,000 likes in nine months. @taylorlorenz3.0's screenshot would later become the most notable screenshot used in the meme trend.

Spread

Later on September 20th, 2022, Tumblr^[4] user radiofreederry posted the screenshot from @taylorlorenz3.0's post, gaining roughly 18,500 notes in nine months. Viral reposts persisted on Instagram^[5] and Facebook^[6] in September 2022, later going viral on Twitter.^[7] The original video was also used in memes on TikTok, such as a video uploaded by TikToker^[8] @faiyuha on September 26th, gaining roughly 4,700 plays and 890 likes in nine months (shown below).

Soon after, exploitation and recaptioning of the original screenshot started to surface, such as a post from Tumblr^[9] user librarycard on October 19th, 2022, that referenced the band My Chemical Romance, gaining over 500 notes in eight months (shown below, left). On October 23rd, Facebook^[10] user Seputar Otaku added the word "VTubers" to the image, gaining roughly 1,200 reactions in eight months (shown below, right).

Usage of a cropped version of the image macro, cropping out "day 2 no hating," started to be used on Twitter^[11] in October 2022. Its usage persisted going into 2023 via viral tweets.^[12]