Show? No This Is For Your Own Good

Submission 45

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About

Show? No This Is For Your Own Good is a reaction image consisting of a screenshot of a TikTok comment section in which user "animeguy066" asks what TV show is being shown in the video and the video creator, @harlskeener, responds, "no" and "this is for your own good." The comment was originally made on April 11th, 2022 and the screenshot became the subject of memes on sites like X / Twitter and Reddit that month, becoming increasingly popular over the following years. The comment by @harlskeener is meant to suggest that the show being asked for is emotionally distressing and it's better that animeguy066 doesn't watch it.

Origin

On April 11th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @harlskeener posted a shipping video compiling footage of Evan "Buck" Buckley and Eddie Diaz from the Fox television series 9-1-1. That day, TikToker animeguy066 commented, "Show?" The creator of the video responded, "no" and "this is for your own good," the implication being that the show is too emotionally distressing to recommend.

On April 19th, Redditor u/ken_black posted a screenshot of the interaction to /r/911FOX,^[2] titling it "Trust me it’ll wreck you 😮‍💨😂," garnering over 80 upvotes in two years.

Spread

The meme became notably popular throughout April 2022.

For example, on April 19th, 2022, X^[3] user @OmarSGH posted a meme in which the comment thread is attached to a screenshot from Normal People, garnering over 112,000 likes in two years. On the same day, u/Dim0ndDragon15 posted a version of the meme to /r/freefolk^[4] referencing Game of Thrones, garnering over 6,000 upvotes in the same span of time.

On April 20th, the official @nbc X^[5] account used the meme, garnering over 1,100 likes in two years. On April 23rd, X^[6] user @willesimaug posted a version of the meme using a screenshot from the show Heartstopper, garnering over 33,000 likes in two years.

The format continued to prove popular throughout 2023 and 2024. On September 24th, 2023, X^[7] user @JJKcontents posted a version of the meme using a screenshot from Jujutsu Kaisen, garnering over 75,000 likes in a year. On September 25th, Instagram^[8] user paranoid_schizophren reposted it, garnering over 16,200 likes in the same span of time.

On August 24th, Redditor u/Marchyxxxx posted a version of the meme about Grave of the Fireflies to /r/ghibli,^[9] garnering over 1,700 upvotes in four months. On September 5th, u/TheWormKeeper reposted the meme to /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke,^[10] garnering over 20,000 upvotes in three months.