Podium Guy / Black Guy At Podium

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When ur at your ex's funeral and they allow you to speak first Ain't God good?

me: snitches get stitches aliens: tell us about humans me, getting ready to snitch on the Caucasian race:

When the homie you always roast on dies and you go to his funeral wit some more heat "Boy.."

Sigmund Freud if he came back and knew the amount of boyfriends that are now called daddy

Aliens: Tell us about humanity Me, getting ready to snitch on the bourgeoisie: DANKLAN

Me: *gets good news* decides to wait a few days before telling anyone to see how it pans out Me: 1 hour later

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About

Podium Guy, also known as Black Guy At Podium is an image macro that uses an image of Martin Baker, a Republican politician and political consultant, standing at a podium. Martin Baker is also know for a meme featuring him talking on the phone, called Black Guy On The Phone.

Origin

On September 17th, 2014, Imgur^[1] user WannaJacket posted a thread containing two Podium Guy memes (seen below). The thread gathered 11,000 upvotes in eight years.

After your presentation and your teacher says "I have a question..." But you don't know s--- about the topic...

When you're trying to present in class but your homies trying to make you laugh

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The image quickly gained moment, with several variations on the image macro going viral on Tumblr and Twitter. On November 24th, 2015, Twitter user @DammmmCam posted a tweet using the meme, gathering over 400 likes in less than a day (seen below). The post has since been deleted.