About

Disappointed Black Guy is a four-panel reaction image macro that expresses the expectation-reality meme. The format follows the following order: a picture of something the meme the author desires or anticipates juxtaposes a photograph of a happy, excited man. The third panel usually reveals the full picture of the first panel, which is different and unappealing, followed by a picture of the same person, but now with an expression of disappointment or shock.

Origin

On December 28th, 2011, Tumblr ^[1] user tediferous posted an image of himself excitedly reading a new message and another picture of his disappointed face when he sees the message features a racist slur. Within 10 years, the image has received more than 120,000 notes (shown below).

Spread

On October 4th, 2012, a Facebook fan page was created for the meme.^[2] Currently, the page has over 1,000 Likes.

For example in 2015, MemeCenter ^[3] user yayayaya posted a variation in which the man is disappointed to find out that he has been looking at the buttocks of Sonic the Hedgehog. The post received more than 800 likes in four years (shown below, left). On August 12th, 2018, Twitter^[4] user @hexxem tweeted the image with a joke about Dublin, Ireland. The post received more than 1,00 likes and 200 retweets in one year (shown below, right).

On August 15th, 2019, Redditor ^[5] kayneshaw posted a variation in the /r/dankmemes subreddit. The post received more than 51,000 points (97% upvoted) and 195 comments in 24 hours (shown below).

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