About

I Say Into the Mic refers to a snowclone popular on Twitter in which a person walks up to a microphone and says an opinion causing the crowd to boo. The crowd are then silenced by an famous person and authority figure on the subject who agrees with the person being booed.

Origin

On December 18th, 2017, Twitter user @hisnameiscarter^[1] tweeted first example, gaining over 2,200 retweets and 9,200 likes. In the tweet, he stated "Lorde is better than those shitty Beatles," to which the crowd boos, only to be silenced by Whitney Houston.

Spread

The snowclone would be tweaked by different users several times over the following day, and usually focused on musical artists. The meme reached its widest audience yet when on December 19th, Twitter user @fastjellyfish^[2] tweeted the scenario with boy band Big Time Rush, gaining over 34,000 retweets and 119,000 likes (shown below, left). The popularity of that tweet contributed to the format moving away from music. A popular non-musical example of the tweet posted by loserichie^[3] gained over 30,000 retweets and 83,000 likes (shown below, right).

The meme was covered by Twitter Moments^[4] on December 21st. The meme also spread to Tumblr, where many of the posts had to do with various shippings. For example, a post by stormpilot2k17^[5] about Star Wars: The Last Jedi gained over 1,900 notes (shown below, left). A post by 353gays^[6] about Stranger Things also gained over 1,300 notes.

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