About

Submissive Guy Gets Disappointed refers to an exploitable four-panel webcomic depicting a man of color daydreaming about getting dominated by a white woman after reading a book titled "All Whites Are Racist" and setting up a date with one, only for the real situation to differ significantly from his expectations. Circulated on 4chan since September 2022, the comic has been a popular source for edits and recaptions, with a Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Worm? version being one popular example.

Origin

On September 20th, 2022, an anonymous 4chan user posted a four-panel comic about a submissive race fetishist on the /pol/^[1] board, opening a thread "Do non whites secretly wish whites were racist?" (authorship unconfirmed). The comic (shown below) depicts a person of color reading a book named "All Whites Are Racist," a "NY Times bestseller," and daydreaming about partaking in slave-master race play with a dominant white woman wearing a Confederate flag bikini. However, after matching with a white woman on Tinder and going out on a date, the woman instead cries and apologizes for being white.

Spread

In the following months, the comic was widely circulated on 4chan, being posted on /pol/,^[2] /bant/,^[3] /trash/^[4] and other boards. On November 6th, 2022, Redditor Hopeful-Tiger-3067 reposted the comic in the /r/196^[5] subreddit, where it garnered over 11,000 upvotes in two years.

On November 20th, 2022, the X^[6] account @ShitpostGate reposted the comic, with the post gaining over 6,500 reposts and 116,000 likes in nine months. Following the post, on November 21st, X^[7] user @glitcheris posted a whitewashed edit, turning the comic into a meme about transgender people and incorporating the Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Worm? question. The edit received over 6,400 reposts and 87,000 likes in two years.

On October 3rd, 2023, the X^[8] account @SocDoneLeft posted a remake that returned the original skin color and gained over 3,400 reposts and 47,000 likes in one year (shown below).

X user @glitcheris's edit notably saw viral spread online, including a November 22nd, 2022, repost in the /r/me_irlgbt^[9] subreddit that accumulated over 33,000 upvotes in two years.

More edits of the comic were shared online in 2023 and 2024. For example, on January 23rd, 2023, Redditor rat-simp posted a The Elder Scrolls edit that gained over 3,600 upvotes in /r/TrueSTL^[10] in two years (shown below).

Prior to April 20th, 2023,^[11] an unknown user posted an edit making a joke about Mexicans loving Neon Genesis Evangelion. The edit (shown below) was reposted multiple times on iFunny and X in the following year. For example, a July 28th, 2024, post by X^[12] user @terminallyOL garnered over 2,100 reposts and 57,000 likes in one month.

Following the post, the format experienced a surge in popularity on X / Twitter in late July 2024.

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