U Good? No

About

U Good? No refers to an image of the two M&Ms mascots in a Half-Life 2 mod, with the yellow one asking "U Good?" to the lying down red one, who says "No." The image grew into an object labeling and reaction image meme in the late 2010s.

Origin

On December 27th, 2010, YouTuber Flagg SV posted a Half-Life 2 mod which included two M&Ms in the game (shown below).

On October 14th, 2015, Tumblr user Windows-98^[1] posted the image to their page, gaining over 17,000 notes (shown below).

Spread

The image appeared in a tweet by @hyped_resonance meant to represent the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (shown below), and was mentioned by Buzzfeed^[2] in a 2016 listicle about films humorously represented by unrelated images. The additions of "U Good?" and "No" began appearing in 2017. One of the earliest examples was posted by Twitter user @AllStarBacon^[3] about Telltale's Walking Dead.

It began spreading on Reddit in mid-2018, appearing in posts in /r/zelda^[4] and /r/MemeEconomy^[5] in June of that year. At the beginning of 2019, object labeling edits began spreading on Instagram. Instagram user ironicbepis posted an edit on February 22nd, gaining over 560 likes (shown below, left). User humanity.gone24 posted an edit on March 5th that gained over 1,700 points (shown below, right).

Es Por Tu Bien

The meme also became a popular reaction image with Spanish speakers, when Twitter user @caxxieb^[6] posted the image paired with the phrase "Es por tu bien," which translates as "It's for your own good." Uploaded on December 26th, 2020, the image garnered 140,000 likes and 29,000 retweets in three years. (seen below)

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