Mom's genes did not even try

This meme is a side-by-side two photo collage. The left photo features a young couple sitting in a car: the woman is light-skinned with long light brown hair wearing a red tank top, smiling at the camera. Her male partner has a medium skin tone, wears a white baseball cap and grey tank top, has facial hair and dental braces, also smiling at the camera. The right photo shows the same couple at a later date with their two young daughters. Both girls share nearly identical facial features, skin tone, and eye shape with their father, with almost no visible traits inherited from their mother. The core joke of the meme references how dominant the father's genes appear to be, to the point the mother's genetics seem to have had no effect on their children.

This meme originates from 9Gag, published under the original title 'Mom's genes did not even try'. It became a popular viral post about unbalanced genetic inheritance between parents, shared across multiple social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter/X, and Facebook, often used as a joke when children strongly take after only one parent.