Who Blons A Dumb De Now?

About

Who Blons A Dumb De Now? is a catchphrase popularized on Twitter / X inspired by a magazine's failure to align its pages correctly, making text that was intended to read "Who's a dumb blonde now?" instead read "Who blons a dumb de now?" The phrase has been referenced widely on Twitter in the decade since it was first posted in 2014, similar to precursors such as Don't Dead Open Inside.

Origin

On October 17th, 2014, Twitter user @TheNewsAtGlenn^[1] posted a picture of a magazine with its pages failing to line up properly. This caused a large graphic intended to read "Who's a dumb blonde now?" to instead read "Who blons a dumb de now?" The post gained over 6,100 retweets and 12,000 likes in 10 years (shown below).

Spread

The tweet saw some immediate spread on social media. It was posted to the subreddit /r/funny by Redditor myothercarisayoshi on October 24th, 2014,^[4] where it gained over 1,900 upvotes in 10 years. It was also covered by the Irish publication The Daily Edge^[2] on October 23rd.

On October 2nd, 2015, the image was then reposted to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit, gaining over 530 upvotes in nine years.

The phrase has also been used to mock similar graphic design flaws. For example, on July 10th, 2016, Twitter user @unrepentantmess^[5] posted the phrase to joke about a folded newspaper front page, gaining 10 likes in eight years (shown below, left). On July 31st, 2020, Twitter user @redskyatnight^[6] used it with a confusing graphic, gaining over 45 likes in four years (shown below, right).

On May 23rd, 2024, Twitter user @wangleberry posted a prompt asking for the most "load-bearing" posts in the site's history. In response, user @scriblit^[7] posted "Who Blons A Dumb De Now," gaining over 920 likes in five days and renewing interest in the meme (shown below).

Various Examples

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