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Kids On Instagram Comments Arguing About Race Meme

This two-panel meme is split by a wavy black line, depicting a typical argument between underage users on Instagram comment sections. The left panel shows a smiling young white boy sitting at a laptop, with text above him reading "U prolly white on here" paired with a dark skin tone boy emoji, representing a user making a baseless assumption that the person he is arguing with is white. The right panel shows a young boy with darker features looking serious while using a laptop, with replying text above him reading "Nigga Im from the raq, u the white one" paired with a light skin tone boy emoji, calling out the first boy's incorrect assumption by revealing he is from Iraq (shortened to "raq" in slang), and pointing out that the first speaker is actually the white person in the interaction. The joke satirizes how young internet users often make unfounded assumptions about other people's identities during online spats, leading to ironic and embarrassing backfires.
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U prolly white on here 👦🏾
Nigga Im from the raq, u the white one 👦🏼

Overview

This two-panel meme is split by a wavy black line, depicting a typical argument between underage users on Instagram comment sections. The left panel shows a smiling young white boy sitting at a laptop, with text above him reading "U prolly white on here" paired with a dark skin tone boy emoji, representing a user making a baseless assumption that the person he is arguing with is white. The right panel shows a young boy with darker features looking serious while using a laptop, with replying text above him reading "Nigga Im from the raq, u the white one" paired with a light skin tone boy emoji, calling out the first boy's incorrect assumption by revealing he is from Iraq (shortened to "raq" in slang), and pointing out that the first speaker is actually the white person in the interaction. The joke satirizes how young internet users often make unfounded assumptions about other people's identities during online spats, leading to ironic and embarrassing backfires.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, posted as an original meme with the title noting it parodies the behavior of children leaving comments on Instagram. It uses a common two-panel "two people arguing online" meme format that repurposes generic stock photos of boys using laptops to represent anonymous social media users interacting over the internet.

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