jevel57 rap / MacDondald Symble

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About

The jevel57 rap refers to a screenshot of Roblox user jevel57 in an in-game rap battle saying the misspelled sentence "boy you think you funny but look at ya hairline be looking like the macdondald symble." The phrase and screenshot have been used in image parodies online.

Origin

According the user pictured in the screenshot, jevel57, the screenshot was taken around 2014-2015.^[1]

The original poster of the image is currently unknown, but the earliest known instance of the image being posted online was on August 31st, 2017 by Twitter user @conkface.^[2] The post received 98 retweets and 314 likes within around 2 years (mirror below).

Spread

The image was reposted onto several other sites, especially Reddit.

Sometime on or before January 27th, 2018, a group called the "Jevel57 appreciation community" was created on the now-defunct website cedar.doctor.^[4] It received over 21 posts in under a month. On January 27th, 2018, A user called hotel man posted a photoshopped version of the McDonald's logo (shown below) in the group that was changed to say "MacDondald" and "boy you think you funny." It received 8 likes within a month.

On July 13th, 2018, a page for jevel57 was created on on the r/GoCommitDie lore wiki^[3].

On November 19th, 2017, YouTube user Bass Boost Bruh posted a video featuring the screenshot edited to have a stretched Roblox head in the background, and rapidly playing the Roblox Death Sound over and over again (shown below, left).^[5] The video received 93 likes and 3640 views in under a year. On March 14th, 2018, Youtuber semp uploaded a video in which he repeatedly says jevel57's catchphrase in a Roblox Rap Battle (shown below, right).^[6] The video gained over 1,000 likes and 25,000 views in under a year.

On September 15th, 2018, Reddit user robloxboy14 posted a image to r/GoCommitDie featuring a still from the I Love It music video by Lil Pump and Kanye West, but with jevel57's roblox speech bubble added in.^[7] It received 27 upvotes within 2 months.

Possible Screenshot Creator Update

On April 6th, 2019, KnowYourMeme user CoffeeDew posted claiming to have been the original user who took the screenshot. He said that the original screenshot was taken in 2017 (contrary to what jevel57 had stated) and that it had been uploaded to Google+ and then spread from there. This is not currently confirmed, as Google+ shut down in April 2019, and CoffeeDew did not respond to any questions. The earliest known archived Google+ post with the jevel57 image was posted on October 22nd, 2017, and it received 16 likes before Google+ shut down^[8]^[9].