About

When Another Boy Has A Balloon refers to a popular joke from Twitter paired with pictures of people pointing at an object offscreen.

Origin

On October 9th, 2016, Twitter user @kibblesmith^[1] uploaded a picture of New Jersey governor Chris Christie pointing at an object out of frame with the caption "When another boy has a balloon," as though he were a jealous toddler. The tweet gained over 8,000 retweets and 24,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

In the following months, Twitter users began applying the tweet to other pictures of people pointing. On January 8th, 2017, @BarstoolSports^[2] posted a picture of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown pointing with the caption, gaining over 160 retweets (shown below, left). On February 20th, Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus^[3] tweeted a picture of himself with the joke, gaining 700 retweets (shown below, right).

On February 21st, Popbuzz^[4] covered the spread of the meme. Over the course of the year, people began taking the template and adding various other details to the joke depending on the subject (examples shown below).

Various Examples

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