Hyperpigmentation Drawing

Submission 35

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About

The Hyperpigmentation Drawing, also known as I Sat Here and Posed For Like 10 Minutes, Let Me See the Product, refers to a black-and-white pen drawing of a woman's face with a large black dot on her cheek said to be hyperpigmentation. The Hyperpigmentation meme is from a viral video of a little girl drawing her mom. Her parents both laugh at her artwork. The mom asks, "Is that hyperpigmentation?" It was originally posted to Facebook and Twitter / X in 2019 by a woman named Sonia Tiebi. It later went viral on video platforms like TikTok and Instagram in 2024. The Hyperpigmentation Drawing then became an exploitable as it was inserted into other meme templates and amassed fan art.

Origin

On May 4th, 2019, internet user Sonia Tiebi took a video of her daughter Sierra. In the video, she's made a portrait of her mom and, when she shows it to her, the mom asks, "Is that hyperpigmentation?" The mom and dad are both laughing or holding back laughter. It's currently unknown where the original video was posted first.

The YouTube^[1] channel ViralHog licensed the video a month later and shared the original recording on June 10th, 2019, gaining over 1.5 million views in five years (shown below). In the video's description, they date it May 4th.

I sat here and posed for like 10 minutes, let me see the product. Is that me? No! No, it's nice! It's so Nice! Ohhh! I've never- I've never looked better. Oooo, where were you? Where were you when it was time for senior photos?

Mommy, I don't think it looks good.

It is fantastic! Oh my god! What's that? Is that hyperpigmentation? Just tell- Okay. You know what? I never seen nothing like this before. I just want you to just keep up, keep it up! Okay?

Well, why was daddy laughing?

Daddy don't know what he's doing anyway. That's how- That's how you say that's- That's a great drawing in French.

A month later, on July 17th, Sonia Tiebi posted the video to her Twitter / X^[2] account @sonia_tiebi, gaining over 3,000 likes in five years.

Spread

In the following years, the video received viral reposts, like one shared by TikToker^[3] @pgardon on April 28th, 2023, which gained over 41.5 million plays and 9.2 million likes in a year.

On November 28th, TikToker^[4] @ijustllne posted the video with a caption reading, "Me showing my art teacher my art project I've spent multiple weeks making," receiving over 10.7 million plays and 2.2 million likes in a year (shown below).

On May 8th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @baezycoolmane reposted the original video with a caption reading, "Girl Cries After Her Dad Laughs At Her Drawing," receiving over 94.5 million plays and 15.4 million likes in five months.

Thereafter, Hyperpigmentation memes surfaced en masse on TikTok. For instance, on July 15th, TikToker^[6] @kai_drawsthings posted a video that joked about "How I wanna draw" vs. "How I actually draw," showing the Hyperpigmentation Drawing to represent the latter. Over three months, the video received over 500,500 plays and 14,100 likes (shown below).

On October 10th, 2024, TikToker^[7] @toowoomba_ posted a Why Is X Lowkey Serving Y meme about Hurricane Milton's Face lowkey serving Hyperpigmentation, gaining over 6.9 million plays and 1.5 million likes in 20 days (shown below).

On October 24th, X^[9] user @lovenotesag quote retweeted a post reading, "You can’t post a picture and expect people to understand," and attached the Hyperpigmentation Drawing as an example. Over six days, the QRT gained roughly 7,100 likes (shown below).

On October 28th, 2024, TikToker^[8] @user46877610 posted a video dressed up as the Hyperpigmentation Drawing for Halloween, amassing over 3.5 million plays and 813,400 likes in two days (shown below).