"What's Wrong?" "Nothing"

About

What's Wrong? Nothing refers to a series of photoshops that appear as a text message conversation. One person asks the other "what's wrong?" and the other types a long response having to do with a trivial matter, which is then deleted and replaced with "Nothing." Other variations have the long response show up as a possible autocorrect option to the word "Nothing." The joke works in a similar way to the What She Says / What She Means Tumblr meme.

Precursor

What She Says, What She Means is a series of posts on Tumblr which juxtapose the phrase "I'm fine" with a humorous translation describing the statement's implicit meaning. The posts are often used to make joke confessions regarding a specific fandom.

Origin

The earliest known post to utilize the format came on May 6th, 2016, in a Tweet by @Dory^[1] with a reference to Shrek. While this is likely not the first time these images were posted online, they are one of the most popular early examples, gaining over 18,000 retweets (shown below).

Spread

Over the coming months, more variations began to appear with similarly esoteric first panels. On May 29th, the Twitter account Sincerely Tumblr^[2] posted a variation with a reference to George Lopez in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl that gained nearly 3,000 retweets.

The style continued throughout much of 2016, primarily on Weird Facebook pages. On December 14th, Facebook group Ｖｉｒｔｕａｌ Ｅｘｐｅｒｉｅｎｃｅｓ イキがいい ^[3] posted an anti-variation of the meme where autocorrect was fulfilling it's intended use. The post gained 893 reactions.

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