About

How Can I Make This About Me 😈 is an exploitable reaction image meme consisting of the caption, "How can I make this about me😈" over a sepia-tone photograph of a city block. The earliest known use of the meme can be traced to June 10th, 2023 by X / Twitter user @artemissapphic. The image is often used to react to content in which someone tries to forcibly make a topic relate to them or their interests using the phrasal template "How can I make this about X," with "X" being the subject they're trying to discuss.

Origin

On June 10th, 2023, X user @estroBiologist posted a screenshot of a TikTok video in which a woman claims that people who like Across the Spider-Verse will like Homestuck. In response, X^[1] user @artemissapphic posted a reaction image of a sepia-tone city block captioned, "How can I make this about me 😈," garnering over 53,000 likes in two years. This is the earliest known user to post the meme.

Spread

The meme continued to spread over the following years as a reaction image, in which the word "me" is sometimes replaced. On March 9th, 2024, Tumblr^[2] user ackee posted an edit of the meme in which "me" has been replaced with "my OCs," garnering over 13,000 notes in a year.

On June 17th, X^[3] user @Odme_ posted a version of the meme replacing "me" with "Mii" in response to the announcement of a Nintendo Direct event, the user writing, "tomodachi life fans:," garnering over 17,000 likes in 10 months. On October 28th, u/Rekrios posted a version of the meme to /r/SonicTheHedgehog^[4] reading, "How can I make this about Radical Highway," garnering over 1,800 upvotes in six months.

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