I Ain't Reading All That

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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.

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

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