i-Ladies

About

i-Ladies or i-Ladies Nuts On Your Face is a joke derived from the setup of Deez Nuts where one person tricks another into asking what "i-ladies" are, allowing the asker to say, "i-ladies nuts on your face" ("I lay deez nuts on your face"). The joke first appeared online in July 2021 and became increasingly popularized over the course of the year, including a viral video on TikTok in 2022.

Origin

The earliest known use of the i-ladies joke was posted by Twitter^[1] user @Bebop_YT on July 25th, 2021, where he tricks another user with it. The earliest known high engagement use of the joke is an image macro posted by iFunny^[2] user Epic_Legend_07 on July 26th showing a text conversation where a boyfriend uses the joke on his girlfriend, resulting in her breaking up with him (shown below). The post gained over 13,000 smiles in a year.

Spread

On August 16th, 2021, Instagram^[3] user xerxes.mp4 posted a meme using the joke, gaining over 2,100 likes in a year (shown below, left). The meme was reposted to 9GAG^[4] on August 20th, gaining over 3,400 upvotes in a year. On the same day, iFunny^[5] user Xing_Tian_The_Relentless posted a screenshot of someone falling for the joke via text, gaining over 4,700 smiles in a year (shown below, right). On August 24th, the joke was defined on Urban Dictionary,^[6] garnering over 160 thumbs-ups in a similar timeframe.

On April 5th, 2022, TikToker^[7] @turntonyoutube posted a clip from a man-on-the-street segment where a girl tricks him with the joke, garnering over 16.9 million views in four months (shown below).

On July 9th, TikToker^[8] @synecdochees posted a video using screenshots from Stranger Things, including the Will Byers Crying meme, garnering over 2.7 million views in a month (shown below).

Related Memes

Deez Nuts

Deez Nuts is the punchline of a conversational joke that involves asking someone a vaguely-phrased question to solicit a follow-up question in response, typically in the form of one of the five Ws, before yelling out the said phrase in an obnoxious manner. While originally introduced as a skit track on Dr. Dre's 1992 rap album Chronic, the joke saw a huge resurgence after it was featured in a short comedic sketch by Internet comedian WelvenDaGreat in early 2015.

Ligma

Ligma is a fictional disease associated with a death hoax orchestrated by Instagram user ninja_hater that claimed Fortnite streamer Ninja had passed away after contracting the disease. The intention of this joke was to prompt concerned fans to ask what Ligma is, to which participants in the hoax would respond with "ligma balls" ("lick my balls").

Look Under There

Look Under There refers to a joke where one person tells another to look "under there," hoping for the victim to ask, "under where?," followed by the joker saying, "I made you say underwear." The joke, which shares similarities to other wordplay pranks like Ligma, has been used since as early as 2000 and saw a resurgence in virality in memes on TikTok in late June 2022.

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