# Baby This Is Keke Palmer Baby This Is Keke Palmer / Metra Train Copypasta grew out of a June 2020 Twitter exchange where @TrixieNumba9 posted a photo of actor Keke Palmer and a stranger insisted it was their sister killed by Chicago's Metra rail. The three-word reply became a copypasta applied to random celebrity photos, picking up wider attention when Halle Berry joined in during April 2021. ## Origin Twitter user @TrixieNumba9 posted the original exchange on June 21, 2020, sharing a still of Keke Palmer from her Akeelah and the Bee press appearance with a crude caption about girls who looked like that in high school[2]. A direct message followed claiming the photo showed the sender's sister, who had been killed by a Metra train, and asking her to take it down[1]. @TrixieNumba9 replied with "Baby, this is Keke Palmer," then recorded a video reading both messages aloud. YouTuber john, stay calm reuploaded that reading on September 1, 2020, where it drew more than 9 million views[3]. - **Platform:** Twitter (origin) / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** @TrixieNumba9 - **Date:** 2020 ## Overview Someone pretends to recognize a famous person in a photo as a dead relative killed by a Metra train, Chicago's commuter rail system, and asks for the picture to come down out of grief[1]. The reply, "Baby, this is Keke Palmer" or whichever name applies, corrects the misidentification flatly without softening the response or acknowledging the grief claim[2]. Posters apply the format to clearly recognizable celebrities, often musicians or actors in old-looking black-and-white or sepia images, and the humor runs on the absurdity of mistaking a widely known face for an obscure relative[6]. The Metra train specifically, rather than any generic accident, became part of the joke because Chicago readers recognized it and non-Chicago readers found the oddly specific detail funnier for being regional. ## How to Use The format needs a photo of a well-known celebrity or public figure. One person comments or sends a DM claiming the pictured person is actually a late sibling killed by a Metra train, often quoting the original message verbatim. The other party replies "Baby, this is [celebrity name]." Many users skip the setup entirely and just post the "killed by a metra train" copypasta text under famous photos as a standalone bit[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Baby This Is Keke Palmer? It is a Twitter copypasta where a user falsely claims a celebrity photo shows their sister killed by Chicago's Metra train and the original poster flatly corrects them with 'Baby, this is Keke Palmer'[1]. ### Where did Baby This Is Keke Palmer come from? Twitter user @TrixieNumba9 posted the exchange on June 21, 2020, and a reading of it was reuploaded to YouTube that September for over 9 million views[3]. ### What does Baby This Is Keke Palmer mean? It mocks overdramatic grief claims online by meeting them with a blunt correction naming the obvious celebrity in the photo[1]. ### How do you use Baby This Is Keke Palmer? Drop the 'killed by a metra train' DM text under a celebrity photo, or play both sides and reply 'Baby, this is [name]' as the punchline[4]. ### Is Baby This Is Keke Palmer still popular? Peak use came in 2021 and 2022 after Halle Berry joined in and Keke Palmer sold merch referencing the line[9]. ## References 1. [https://www.newsweek.com/baby-this-keke-palmer-metra-train-meme-explained-1581932]() 2. [https://twitter.com/ANTIJZA/status/1274802048136105989]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFsULdmtFqo]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/jmhzfg/metra_train/]() 5. [https://twitter.com/halleberry/status/1380032648828100608]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/baby-this-is-keke-palmer-metra-train-copypasta]() 7. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210408031900/https://twitter.com/KekePalmer/status/1379997077904629761]() 8. [https://www.tiktok.com/@onebrowraised/video/7023272197619846405]() 9. [https://www.facebook.com/100044569773572/posts/449470369881952]() 10. [https://twitter.com/cuddapotato/status/1530425371258142722]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/baby-this-is-keke-palmer-metra-train-copypasta Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library