We President Now

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About

"We President Now" is an expression mocking African Americans celebrating the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Online, it is often associated with a photograph of rapper Lil Wayne and has inspired variations using the phrasal template "we X now."

Origin

The exact origin of the expression is unknown. According to a post on /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[2] 4chan users began posting the phrase on the /pol/ (politically incorrect) board after Obama was elected in 2008, but no archived threads have been found.

Spread

On January 7th, 2010, an image macro of rapper Lil Wayne with the caption "We President Now" was uploaded to the 4chan archive site Chan4Chan^[1] (shown below). On November 5th, IGN Forums^[3] user LegacyAccount submitted a post asking for an explanation of the "'We President Now' meme," where many noted that the quote had been falsely attributed to Lil Wayne.

A page featuring other captioned versions of the photograph was subsequently created on Troll.me.^[5] In March 2012, a screenshot of a Facebook rant in which a user named Tyrone Concord Jones writes "we president now" was submitted to the AllHipHop Forums^[4] (shown below).

Tyrone Concord Jones beautiful teen contest about a minute ago Most ALL U WHITE AZZ CRAKA ASS FAGGET MUHFUKKAS IZ BITCHES. HAHA U ALL A BUNCH OF LIL TINY DIKK FAGETS. ALL WITES NEED 2 DIE. 9 N----- WERE DA FIRST PEOPLE ON EARTH. PEOPLE STARTED IN AFRICA. N----- BUILT DA PYRAMIDZ. N----- MADE ALL DAT S--- YOU USE IN YO HOUSE BUT YO WHITE ASS CRACKA RACIS BITCHES STOLE OUR INVENTSIONS BUT WHATEVA NAWMSAYIN N---- WE PRESIDENT NOW. DIS A BLACK MANS WORLD. WITE MEN AINT GOT S--- ON US. U WITE CRAKA BITCHES IS SO DUM, AND U ALL LⅣ IN TRAILERS AND S---. WITE TRASH MOFUCKAS. I SEE ALL U FAGETS WIT DA NAZI KKK SKINHEAD S--- CUZ YALL SCARED OF US. U KNO WE SUPERIEOR 2 DA WITE MAN. BLACC MEN GOT BIGGA D----, WE GOT MO MUSELS, WE MO INTELLIGINT, WE FASTA, AND ALL DEM WITE BITCHESS WANNA GET WIT DA BLACK MAN NOW. YEA DATS RITE I F--- WITE BITCHEZ CUZ DEY WANT DA PLESURE DAT ONLY A BLACK MAN CAN GIV DEM. N---- I BE FUKIN YO DAUGHTAS I BE F----- YO WIFEZ. U WHITE FAGGET CRAKA AZZ MOFUCKAS CNT DO S--- BOUT IT 5 IN A FEW YEAR DEY ONLY GON BE N----- ON EARTH, JUS LIKE WHEN MANKIND STARTED CUZ Write a comment

On November 17th, YouTuber zerxes94 uploaded a prank call titled "We President Now," in which a radio caller impersonates LiL Wayne (shown below). On June 5th, 2013, Body Building Forums^[6] member HippyBrah submitted a thread titled "We president now." On August 6th, 2015, a post asking about where the popular Counter-Strike phrase "We CoD now boys" originated in a post on /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[2]

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