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Meme: Confused Nick Young

{Week 3, History of Social Media: Browse through the Meme Database on knowyourmeme.com and pick a meme (either one you found there or one you were previously familiar with) and write a quick analysis of what the meme involves and the message it communications}

NBA Player Nick Young became the face of many variations of memes after appearing in a web series “Thru the lense” in July, 2014. While Young’s mum talks about him when he was younger she says he was “a clown” in which Young reacts with a pure look of confusion. The confused look on Young's face was then screen captured and after the picture circulated the internet, the production of memes started. Made up of jokes that did not make sense nor add up, the screen capture of Young’s face was inserted below to display the confusion over the matter.

The first example was a remix of the original meme tweeted via Twitter in 2015 by now suspended account @WorldStarFunny, where the original photo is Young photoshopped wearing a sombrero with the caption “Que” meaning “What” in English. Pairing the image with the joke of not being able to sneak out of the house, however Mexican drug lord El Chapo having escaped Maximum security prison twice.

The ultimate pairing, where the photo and look on Young's face expresses exactly what we are feeling and thinking inside. Confusion. How is that possible? A convicted criminal can escape a maximum security prison with armed guards and fences yet we are unable to sneak out of our own house without our parents knowing?! It gets you thinking about the the term maximum security, why is it so easy for these criminals to escape and how that shouldn’t be able to happen!

After the attention of the meme grew, variations of the meme started to surface, using the same picture however changing the context in which it is read alike how the reaction of Young to his mother has now been changed. Below are a few examples.