Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point

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Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point refers to a Clickhole article titled "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point." Screenshots of the article have been used as reaction images on Twitter to express agreement with someone the poster otherwise dislikes. The article and image have become so ubiquitous online that many simply post the picture as a reaction image.

Origin

"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" was posted to Clickhole on February 5th, 2018.^[1]

Spread

Over the course of 2018, screenshots of the article began spreading primarily on Twitter as a way to express agreement with people the poster dislikes. For example, Twitter user @DiorioNathaniel^[2] posted it next to a screenshot of a Ben Shapiro tweet on February 7th. On March 29th, @adamjohnsonnyc used the image next to a Donald Trump tweet about Amazon.

Another popular example of the meme was posted by @weave221 in response to Azealia Banks roasting Elon Musk on her Instagram stories (shown below, left). On May 30th, Twitter user @datnofact said "You can measure precisely how bad twitter currently is by how often you're tempted to use this meme."