Nara Smith Making Things From Scratch

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About

Nara Smith Making Things From Scratch, also known as Me Making X From Scratch, refers to an exploitable image macro meme featuring Nara Smith a trad-adjacent TikToker known for making meals from scratch. The meme shows Nara Smith wearing a red dress as she sprinkles something in a steel pot. Variations of the meme include "Making Zyns from scratch" and making "menthol cigarettes from scratch," with users recaptioning or editing the text to change what's being made.

Origin

On May 23rd, 2024, TikToker^[1] Nara Smith posted a video showing how she updates her pantry, making various sauces from scratch. The video gathered over 20 million plays and 3 million likes in three weeks (seen below).

On June 10th, X^[2] user @internwatts posted the earliest known iteration of a meme that uses a frame from the aforementioned video with a text overlay joke about what Nara was making "from scratch." Early iterations of the meme were typically related to tobacco products. The post gathered over 62,000 likes in four days (seen below).

Spread

Other X^[3]^[4] users adopted the joke on June 10th, 2024, with @chaoticbubbless and @telecells posting "making mango juul pods" and "making menthol cigarettes from scratch," gathering over 68,000 and 190,000 likes, respectively, in four days (seen below).

More internet users posted versions of the meme in June 2024, including X users @veryharryhill^[5] and @itsbarbey^[6] on June 12th, who gathered over 100,000 likes and 12,000 likes, respectively, in two days (seen below).