He posts memes that relate to his own songs. There’s another question you’re probably asking right now: Why? Why does T-Pain, a man who changed hip-hop with his pioneering use of autotune, have an outdated meme tattooed on his hand? Why does a T-Pain have an image macro on the same hand that have clutched not one, but two Grammies? After scrolling through more than 2,000 of his posts, I’d already found the answer. “Why did I not think of this method first?” I asked myself. “What does Reddit think about my ultimate face palm tattoo?” T-Pain asked. 204 weeks ago, in July of 2012: a photo of the still-fresh tattoo. That means I’d looked at nearly 2,000 posts, and began to grow weary. This man posts about 10 times a week, and I’d scrolled back almost three years. I had to go straight to his Instagram, because I’d wasted three hours of valuable search time on YouTube. We were working with a 4-year window, and the trail had gone cold.īut I’d missed the most obvious lead of all: T-Pain himself. Plus, given the meme only came to prominence in late 2009, I could rest assured T-Pain didn’t get it before then. When Nardwar interviewed T-Pain in March 2009, Jackie was gone. I could trace the tattoo quite clearly back until November 2013, when T-Pain appeared on Sway in the morning. I mean, the tattoo is even in T-Pain’s goddamn press shots. I felt like Jackie and T-Pain were colluding, taunting me. Sure enough Jackie Chan was there, wearing that same baffled expression he will carry into eternity. It has more than 9,000,000 views on Youtube, so I thought it’d be a good place to start. T-Pain’s highest profile appearance in the past few years was his October 2014 NPR Tiny Desk concert. Surely, if T-Pain had taken this tattoo out into the public eye, we would have noticed. But we didn’t notice - maybe because it was pretty small scale event. In 2015, at a party for Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, he proudly flashed the tattoo - like he wanted us to see it.
I trawled through Google Images to find shots of T-Pain (and his right hand) at various events.
T-Pain is a famous man who’s basically been photographed at least once a week, every week since 2005. It seemed like confirmation, but I had to make yoo… is that the confused Asian man meme tattooed on your hand? /9ZYc3oVgfZ But something remarkable happened: T-Pain, man of one million Twitter followers retweeted British Jake, of 2,000.
I became filled with a deep sense of disbelief. Jake Tweeted T-Pain about it: “yoo… is that the confused Asian man meme tattooed on your hand?” I saw the Tweet.
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