About

Majors Be Like is a phrasal template used to make stereotypes about students of various college disciplines. The joke follows the format "[X] majors be like [X]."

Origin

The earliest available usage of the format was posted by Twitter ^[1] user @_cheflem on May 1st, 2012 (shown below). They wrote, "Most non science majors be like whatever with these grades."

Spread

Over the next seven years, Twitter users would consistently share variations on the format. For example, on February 26th, 2015, Twitter^[2] user @ddpieroni posted a picture of the What Is The Dress? dress and the caption, "fashion majors be like." The tweet received more than 515 retweets and 495 likes in less than five years (shown below).

In October 2019, the format surged in popularity. On October 30th, 2019, Twitter^[3] user @sadmexi tweeted, "sociology majors be like damn i have to solve systematic racism by friday." Within two days, the tweet received more than 111,000 likes and 22,000 retweets (shown below, center).

Later that day, Twitter^[4] user @omaddiyo tweeted, "Psychology majors be like damn I can’t even be mad at you bc I know why you reacted the way you did." The tweet received more than 587,000 likes and 126,000 retweets in two days (shown below, right).

On October 31st, 2019, the website StayHipp^[5] published a report on the meme.

Various Examples

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