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9 Year Old Me Pretending Not To Care To Speed Up Game Load Times

The meme features a young Black man wearing a white tank top, holding a lit PlayStation controller while resting his chin on his hand and looking off to the side with an exaggerated, deliberately uninterested expression. Overlaid white text on the image reads "9 year old me thinking the game would load faster if I acted like I didn't care", referencing the widely relatable childhood superstition that ignoring a loading video game would make it finish loading more quickly. The joke resonates with people who grew up playing video games with long load times, highlighting the silly, irrational behaviors many children adopted out of impatience.
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9 year old me thinking the game would load faster if I acted like I didn't care

Overview

The meme features a young Black man wearing a white tank top, holding a lit PlayStation controller while resting his chin on his hand and looking off to the side with an exaggerated, deliberately uninterested expression. Overlaid white text on the image reads "9 year old me thinking the game would load faster if I acted like I didn't care", referencing the widely relatable childhood superstition that ignoring a loading video game would make it finish loading more quickly. The joke resonates with people who grew up playing video games with long load times, highlighting the silly, irrational behaviors many children adopted out of impatience.

Origin notes

This meme originates from a video originally posted to TikTok by user @ayonon0, as confirmed by the official TikTok watermark and username tag in the bottom right corner of the image. The static screenshot version of the video was later reposted to X (formerly Twitter) as a shareable meme image, as noted in the provided source information.

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