Petty Skai Jackson / Skai Jackson Sitting

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About

Petty Skai Jackson / Skai Jackson Sitting is a reaction image based on a photograph of American teen actress Skai Jackson sitting primly on a chair. Upon entering circulation via Twitter in April 2016, the image has been used in combination with dialogues or descriptions of social interactions illustrating common acts of pettiness and pretentiousness driven by perfectionism, particularly within the Black Twitter community.

Origin

On April 4th, 2016, the actress Skai Jackson tweeted a photo of herself waiting in the green room of the New York City Fox affiliate before an appearance on the morning news show Good Day New York.^[9] The tweet received 666 retweets and 1,679 likes as of April 19th.^[1]

Spread

On April 12th, Twitter user jonnnfinest tweeted the photo with a captioned imaginary conversation between a boyfriend and a girlfriend. The tweet received over 12,800 retweets and over 11,100 likes.^[2]

On April 13th, Twitter user tamela__ tweeted the photo with a captioned imaginary conversation between a teacher and his or her students, which received over 10,000 retweets and over 11,000 likes.^[3]

On April 14th, users on Twitter discovered that there was another angle taken of the photo, and began tweeting both photos paired with captions.^[4]

Also on the 14th, users began posting the photos to Tumblr. One post, a screenshot of a tweet originally posted by shedissinme from that day,^[5] received more than 19,000 notes.^[6]

On April 15th, Buzzfeed explained the photo meme in an article.^[7] As of April 19th, an image search for the original photo upload confirms thousands of instances on Twitter.^[8]

The meme got more spread later in May, after Jackson and rapper Azealia Banks exchanged words on twitter, resulting in Banks receiving a twitter suspension.