About

Me Showing My Mom a Funny Meme refers to a meta social game in which participants show their mothers an image macro of Winnie the Pooh squinting at a piece of paper as a response to the caption "me showing my mom a funny meme." The intention of the video is to have the mothers inadvertently mimic Winnie the Pooh expression.

Origin

On April 13th, 2019, Redditor ^[1] emmperor_zurg posted the image macro in the /r/me_irl subreddit. The post received more than 28,000 points (98% upvoted) and 160 comments (shown below).

Spread

On April 22nd, Twitter user @kweenngee tweeted a video of a person showing their mother this meme. The post received more than 74,000 retweets, 180,000 likes and 1.37 million views in four days (shown below).

Additionally, that day, Instagram user @bitch posted a version of the game, crediting the video to Instagram users @vivcarvalho7 and @nessamarquezini. The post received more than 627,000 likes and 4.8 million views in four days (shown below).

On April 25th, BuzzFeed ^[2] published a report on the meme.

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