Conceited Reaction

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Conceited Reaction is a reaction image showing New York battle rapper Conceited pursing his lips and cutting his eyes off camera during a 2013 rap battle. The clip went viral as a GIF on Black Twitter in September 2016 and spread to Reddit as shorthand for awkwardness, anxiety, or quiet disapproval.

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Overview

Conceited Reaction is a reaction image and GIF of New York battle rapper Conceited pursing his lips and cutting his eyes off camera while an opponent raps at him1. The clip gets paired with captions about awkwardness, low-key anxiety, secondhand embarrassment, or polite disapproval, usually of something someone else just said or did2.

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The face is instantly readable, which is why it caught on as a shorthand reaction on Twitter and Reddit rather than staying inside battle rap circles3. It sits in the same family of Black Twitter reaction GIFs from the mid 2010s that pulled expressions out of rap footage and interviews2.

How It Spread

On September 15, 2016, Twitter user Bekgurk posted a GIF of the Conceited moment captioned with a joke about the gap between how you look in your mirror versus your iPhone front camera1. Conceited himself, tweeting from @ConceitedNYC, retweeted it the same day, and the post pulled in more than 32,500 likes and 27,400 retweets within about two months2.

On October 10, 2016, Twitter user @WiseGuy_wes27 reposted the GIF alongside a mock exchange about a white person being asked whether they would swap skin with a person of color5. The next day, Redditor MGLLN screenshotted the tweet to r/BlackPeopleTwitter, where it climbed past 4,500 votes at an 82% upvote rate3.

Across the rest of October 2016, image macros using the Conceited face regularly hit the front page of r/BlackPeopleTwitter, and on October 22 Redditor Black_Gotenks flagged the trend in a post to r/MemeEconomy noting it was gaining steam on Black Twitter2.

How to Use This Meme

The format is simple: drop the Conceited GIF or a still frame under a tweet, screenshot, or scenario you find awkward, cringe, or mildly offensive3. Captions typically set up a situation in the first line, then use the image as the wordless punchline reaction, often for things you cannot politely respond to out loud1.

Frequently Asked Questions

Conceited Reaction

2013reaction imageclassic

Conceited Reaction is a reaction image showing New York battle rapper Conceited pursing his lips and cutting his eyes off camera during a 2013 rap battle. The clip went viral as a GIF on Black Twitter in September 2016 and spread to Reddit as shorthand for awkwardness, anxiety, or quiet disapproval.

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Overview

Conceited Reaction is a reaction image and GIF of New York battle rapper Conceited pursing his lips and cutting his eyes off camera while an opponent raps at him1. The clip gets paired with captions about awkwardness, low-key anxiety, secondhand embarrassment, or polite disapproval, usually of something someone else just said or did2.

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The face is instantly readable, which is why it caught on as a shorthand reaction on Twitter and Reddit rather than staying inside battle rap circles3. It sits in the same family of Black Twitter reaction GIFs from the mid 2010s that pulled expressions out of rap footage and interviews2.

How It Spread

On September 15, 2016, Twitter user Bekgurk posted a GIF of the Conceited moment captioned with a joke about the gap between how you look in your mirror versus your iPhone front camera1. Conceited himself, tweeting from @ConceitedNYC, retweeted it the same day, and the post pulled in more than 32,500 likes and 27,400 retweets within about two months2.

On October 10, 2016, Twitter user @WiseGuy_wes27 reposted the GIF alongside a mock exchange about a white person being asked whether they would swap skin with a person of color5. The next day, Redditor MGLLN screenshotted the tweet to r/BlackPeopleTwitter, where it climbed past 4,500 votes at an 82% upvote rate3.

Across the rest of October 2016, image macros using the Conceited face regularly hit the front page of r/BlackPeopleTwitter, and on October 22 Redditor Black_Gotenks flagged the trend in a post to r/MemeEconomy noting it was gaining steam on Black Twitter2.

How to Use This Meme

The format is simple: drop the Conceited GIF or a still frame under a tweet, screenshot, or scenario you find awkward, cringe, or mildly offensive3. Captions typically set up a situation in the first line, then use the image as the wordless punchline reaction, often for things you cannot politely respond to out loud1.

Frequently Asked Questions