What is Don't You Lecture Me With Your 30 Dollar Haircut?

It's a sound-meme format built around a catchphrase from the English dub of Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, where the line is followed by around 100 emojis each dubbed with a quick sound effect.

Where did Don't You Lecture Me With Your 30 Dollar Haircut come from?

The line is spoken by villain Android 13 in the 2008 Funimation dub of the 1992 film. The meme format was created by Twitter user @iwakeupDP on September 19, 2020.

What does Don't You Lecture Me With Your 30 Dollar Haircut mean?

In the film, Android 13 is mocking Trunks' hair during a fight. As a meme, the phrase is just a trigger for the real punchline, the wall of emojis and sounds that follows.

How do you use Don't You Lecture Me With Your 30 Dollar Haircut?

You pick an emoji, pair it with a short sound, and repeat the combination roughly a hundred times after the catchphrase. GDColon's sequencer at gdcolon.com makes building versions easy without video software.

Is Don't You Lecture Me With Your 30 Dollar Haircut still popular?

It settled into classic status after the 2022 sequencer release, with the GDColon tool keeping the format alive as a web toy rather than a trending video format.

Don't You Lecture Me With Your 30 Dollar Haircut

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Published October 9, 2026

A bizarre line from the 2008 Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! turned into one of the loudest emoji-sound memes on the internet. In September 2020, Twitter user @iwakeupDP paired the catchphrase with 121 Moyai emojis, each dubbed with a Vine Thud, kicking off a format that would get its own sequencer tool by 2022.

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Overview

The meme pairs the Android 13 catchphrase with a block of identical emojis repeated roughly a hundred times, where each emoji gets dubbed over with a short sound effect played in rapid succession1. The classic version uses the Moyai emoji (🗿) paired with the Vine Thud, but creators swapped in guitar emojis with electric riffs, flexed-arm emojis with grunts, and dozens of other combinations2.

The gag works because of the escalation: the dub line sets up a dramatic tone, then the screen fills with the emoji wall rattling off sound effects at machine-gun pace3. It became a flexible audio template rather than a static catchphrase, with sound choices doing most of the comedic work.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Dragon Ball Z dub (source) / Twitter (viral spread)

Creator

@iwakeupDP

Date

2020

The source line comes from Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, a 1992 anime film given an English dub by Funimation in 20084. At the 19:36 mark, villain Android 13, voiced by Doug Rand, tells Trunks not to lecture him with his thirty dollar haircut. YouTube clips of the line circulated for years, with a 2012 upload by Hivnom crossing 50,000 views5.

The meme format itself was born on September 19, 2020, when Twitter user @iwakeupDP posted a screenshot of a Discord channel description containing the all-caps phrase followed by 121 Moyai emojis6. Later the same day, @iwakeupDP posted a video version where each 🗿 was dubbed with a Vine Thud, racking up over 41,300 views and 3,700 likes within ten months7.

How It Spread

After @iwakeupDP's original video, reposts moved to YouTube and Instagram through late 2020 and early 2021. A reupload by TheToaMaster on November 15, 2020 pulled over 108,000 views in nine months, and a January 2021 Twitter repost by @Distorto54 added another 44,000 views3.

The real surge came on iFunny in June 2021. On June 9, user Oramj combined the format with a Regular Show clip from the 2011 episode 'Cool Bikes', keeping the Moyai-Thud pairing and getting featured on the app for 37,000 smiles9. The next day, user tylers_box swapped Moyai for guitar emojis dubbed with the show's electric guitar riff10. Variants kept piling up through mid-June, then jumped to YouTube and back to Twitter in July 2021, with a Team Fortress 2 Heavy version set to 'Can't Stop' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers getting particular traction11.

On January 27, 2022, developer TheRealGDColon launched a web sequencer at gdcolon.com/🗿 that let users arrange sound effects, control tempo, pitch, and panning, and loop sections8. The tool pushed the format back into virality on Twitter and essentially froze it as a lasting audio toy.

Timeline

2008

Funimation's English dub of Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! releases, including Doug Rand's '30 dollar haircut' line[4].

2012-11-19

YouTuber Hivnom uploads a clip of the line, eventually crossing 50,000 views[5].

2020-09-19

Twitter user @iwakeupDP posts the Discord screenshot and, later that day, the first Vine Thud video version[6][7].

2021-06-09

IFunny user Oramj releases a Regular Show 'Cool Bikes' version, hitting 37,000 smiles[9].

2021-06-10

IFunny user tylers_box posts the guitar-emoji variant with the Regular Show electric riff[10].

2021-07

A Team Fortress 2 Heavy version set to 'Can't Stop' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers spreads on YouTube and Twitter[11].

2022-01-27

Developer TheRealGDColon launches a dedicated web sequencer at gdcolon.com for building custom versions[8].

How to Use This Meme

The template typically opens with the catchphrase, then displays a wall of around 100 identical emojis while a sound effect plays once per emoji in rapid fire. Creators usually match the sound to the emoji choice, Moyai with Vine Thuds, guitars with riffs, drums with hits. GDColon's web sequencer at gdcolon.com lets anyone arrange sounds, change tempo, and loop sections without video editing8.