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First of All refers to a series of dialogue tweets in which a tweeter imagines person saying something, to which the person responds "first of all…" with a humorous rebuttal. The texts are predominantly popular on Black Twitter.

Origin

The meme began spreading in the first half of October 2017. On October 1st, 2017, Twitter user unbotheredbliss^[1] tweeted "“Why you ain’t text me back” First of all experiment 623 you’re not my man, relax." The tweet went viral, gaining over 45,000 retweets and 121,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

Over the course of the following two weeks, the dialogue would be reproduced with various other humorous scenarios. On October 6th, user @tep126^[2] tweeted "Niggas say “Go have fun with that other nigga” like it’s a threat liiiiike first of all, ima have a blast," gaining over 23,000 retweets and 51,000 likes (shown below, left). On October 8th, user @oluuuuuuchi^[3] tweeted "“hey shorty” , first of all I’m taller than you ." and gained over 950 retweets (shown below, right).

By October 15th, the meme had begun attracting media attention. It has been covered by Twitter Moments,^[4] Smosh,^[5] Complex,^[6] and more. Over the next few days the meme's media attention grew further, with Yahoo News calling it Sassiest Meme of 2017^[7] and MTV News noting how much traction the meme is getting online and voiced their support of it, affirming their fondness for the meme.^[8]

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