Maddi Mays' Autistic Bad Bitch Joke

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Maddi Mays' Autistic Bad Bitch Joke refers to a viral video of stand-up comedian Maddi Mays telling a joke with the premise, "It's hard being a bad bitch when you're autistic." The video went viral on Twitter / X in April 2024. Discourse and reactions surfaced en masse, regarding whether or not Mays' set was funny, centering on discussions of Autism diagnosis.

Origin

On April 14th, 2024, X^[1] user @MaddiMays tweeted a video of herself doing stand-up comedy in which she opened with "It's hard being a bad bitch when you're autistic." Her set centered on convincing people that she's autistic despite being attractive. Over two days, the video received over 19 million views and 75,000 likes (shown below).

Also on April 14th, 2024, Mays posted the video to her TikTok^[2] account @artofmaddimays, where it gained over 5.1 million plays and 1.2 million likes in two days.

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On X, the video inspired viral reactions and memes, many of which joked about laughing preemptively because Mays was attractive. For instance, on April 14th, 2024, X^[3] user @x6ixx_ replied, "I ain’t hear nun she said and I still laughed," gaining over 3,600 likes in two days (shown below, left).

Also on April 14th, 2024, X^[4] user @vidsthatgohard quoted the video, saying, "I would’ve threw my underwear on the stage," gaining over 1,400 likes in two days (shown below, right).

Others on X joked about how Mays' set was not funny, like X^[5] user @DeneCymone on April 14th, 2024, who said, "Being light skin and thick will get you so far in life…" receiving over 81,000 likes in two days (shown below, left).

On April 15th, 2024, X^[6] user @lnbshr tweeted, "Stop putting that autistic lightskin on my TL rs," referring to Mays' video, gaining over 8,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

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