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I Ain't Reading All That refers to a screenshot of a direct message in which a person wrote, "I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened." After being posted on Twitter in late 2019, the screenshot has become a popular reaction image to long posts, similar to tl;dr. In early October 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom notably used the meme on Twitter / X.

Origin

On December 16th, 2019, Twitter account @nocontextdms^[1] posted a screenshot of a person with a Cyberpunk 2077 Keanu Reeves avatar writing, "I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened." The post gained over 23,000 retweets and 100,000 likes before the account was suspended.

On April 5th, 2022, Twitter @rudy_betrayed^[4] tweeted that he "used to run" the @nocontextdms account and that the screenshot was submitted by a follower of the account (shown below).

In an interview with MEL Magazine, Jeudy Viquez, author of the "I ain't reading all that" text in the screenshot, said:

I’m in an NBA group chat and my friend Will was venting about a girl and sent a large wall of text I was not interested in reading. Truth be told I still have no idea what it said…I said it offhandedly and didn’t know it would become what it is now.^[5]

In the same article, "Will" described the content of the long text he reportedly sent into the NBA group chat:

From what I remember I was venting about this girl from college that I had a thing for but she never picked up on it until before she left the country and it was a long wall about our relationship.

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The image became a popular means of responding to long posts, similar to how "tl;dr" is used. For example, on January 15th, 2020, user @zrjaved^[2] posted it in response to a statement posted by NBA basketball player Kyrie Irving (shown below).

On May 18th, Twitter user @touchnick^[3] posted it in response to a lengthy Instagram post by Ariana Grande (shown below). The reaction has been popularly used on Twitter throughout 2020.

Usage By Gavin Newsom

On October 6th, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom used the meme on his official X / Twitter^[6] account (@CAgovernor) in a quote-tweet in reply to U.S. Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller posting about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities during President Donald Trump's administration. The tweet received over 673,000 views, 16,000 likes and 520 replies in a day.

That same day, Twitter^[7] user @bigrackspart7 quote-tweeted the original reply from Newsom, claiming the meme was a screenshot from their old group chat and noting that it was just used by "the next president of the U.S." The tweet received over 140,000 views and 2,400 likes in 21 hours.

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