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Read, Nigga, Read refers to an object labeling exploitable taken from a scene from The Boondocks. In the scene, Uncle Ruckus shows a bible to a possessed Tom as part of an exorcism. The format has been used to illustrate insistent fans demanding others read something.

Origin

The Boondocks episode from which the scene comes from is Season 2, Episode 4, "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back," which first aired on October 29th, 2007^[1] (scene shown below).

Spread

On August 4th, 2013, Tumblr user stonedpervert^[2] posted stills of the scene. The post gained over 98,000 notes thanks to a reblog by user theghostofchurch, who captioned the stills, "college" (shown below, left). On April 26th, 2017, an example using Jojo's Bizarre Adventure appeared on 4chan.^[3]

The template grew more popular around late 2018. On November 1st, 2018, the template was posted to /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial^[4] (shown below, left). On November 27th, user Not_Dragonborn posted an example about Article 13, gaining over 1,500 points (shown below, right).

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