He Cute

About

He Cute, also known as "Nigga Finna Get Dabbed On" is a greentext story about a white person watching the film Black Panther at a theater, who unexpectedly shouts a joke during the movie. The copypasta is often accompanied by an illustration of Pepe the Frog wearing a tuxedo.

Origin

The original greentext was posted on February 1st, 2018 by a 4chan user on the /tv/^[1] (television and film) board (seen below).

>watching Black Panther at the movies
>intense fighting scene between protag and antag
>slouch down my seat and yell, "YO, THIS NIGGA BOUTTA DABBED ON"
>everyone laughs
>black guy sucks his teeth and says, "You aight, white boy"
>Hear "He cute" from one of the girls

Spread

On April 7th, 2018, Redditor Darwin-I_Ching submitted a screenshot of the greentext story to /r/4chan,^[4] where it gathered more than 8,100 points (91% upvoted) and 130 comments.

On April 10th, the copypasta was reposted to the /r/moviescirclejerk^[3] subreddit. The following day, a thread featuring several different variations of the copypasta was submitted to /tv/ board.^[5] On April 14th, the greentext was reposted to /tv/.^[6] That day, a snake-themed variation of the copypasta was submitted to /tv/ (shown below).^[7] That day, a screenshot of the post was submitted to /r/4chan,^[8] where it gathered upwards of 700 points (95% upvoted) within one month.

On April 19th, 2018, the Reddit user "CHAD_J_THUNDERCOCK" published an animated adaptation of the original story (shown below). On the same day, the youtuber "Okksana Okksana" made a reading video of the original greentext.

Tuxedo Pepe

After the posting of the original greentext, the following picture – known as Tuxedo Pepe – and variations of it got associated with the copypasta

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