# Four Lads In Jeans In July 2019, Birmingham resident Connor Humpage posted an Instagram photo of himself and three friends in tight denim before a night out, captioned 'Tight trousers chose us.' Twitter users spent 2020 and 2021 captioning the image with invented pub dialogue about boxing, Peaky Blinders and British politics. By August 2022, a papier-mache statue of the four men stood on the Birmingham corner where the photo was taken. ## Origin Connor Humpage, under the Instagram handle @cj_humps_tattoos, uploaded the original photograph on July 6, 2019, showing himself with Alex Lacey, Jamie Philips and Kevin Rooney posed on a Birmingham street before heading out to the bar[2]. The caption, 'Tight trousers chose us,' alongside four matching pairs of skinny jeans, gave the image its eventual meme name. In the year following upload, the post itself received roughly 1,200 likes. According to The Tab, the real viral moment came when a large Facebook meme page screenshotted the photo, where it collected over 500,000 likes, though the specific page is not documented[1]. From that Facebook repost, the image moved onto Twitter in mid-2020, where the Four Lads In Jeans format took shape[6]. - **Platform:** Instagram (source photo) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Connor Humpage (@cj_humps_tattoos) - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview Captions give the four subjects invented one-liners of stereotypical British 'lads,' with the matching tight jeans and pre-drinks pose reading as pure Midlands night-out iconography[1]. Typical examples voice loud pub opinions about boxing matches, Peaky Blinders and Tom Hardy, with @mediobentro's May 2020 tweet 'Peaky Blinders is quality mate, Tom Hardy surely the best actor going' setting the template[4]. A sharper strain cast the group as reactionary British conservatives, with captions defending Winston Churchill statues or making right-wing complaints, which the actual men in the photo say does not represent who they are[5]. In an interview with The Tab, Alex Lacey, Jamie Philips, Kevin Rooney and Connor Humpage said the gentler jokes were funny, but singled out a meme pairing their faces with a reference to George Floyd as the point where the humor stopped being acceptable to them[1]. ## How to Use People typically caption the photo with invented dialogue the four might say at the pub or on a night out, often a loud take on British TV, football, boxing or politics. The humor relies on the mismatch between their pose and the confidently wrong opinion attributed to them, so captions usually end with 'mate' or sound like something overheard at closing time. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Four Lads In Jeans? Four Lads In Jeans is a viral meme format built from a July 2019 Instagram photo of four friends from Birmingham and Coventry posed in tight denim before a night out[2]. ### Where did Four Lads In Jeans come from? Connor Humpage posted the original photo as @cj_humps_tattoos on Instagram on July 6, 2019, captioned 'Tight trousers chose us,' before Twitter users turned it into a captioned meme in 2020[1]. ### What does Four Lads In Jeans mean? Captions cast the four men as stereotypical British 'lads' with loud, confidently wrong pub opinions about boxing, television and politics[5]. ### How do you use Four Lads In Jeans? Users caption the photo with invented dialogue the lads might shout on a night out, from Peaky Blinders takes to boxing hot-takes, as @mediobentro's early viral tweet shows[4]. ### Is Four Lads In Jeans still popular? After peaking across 2020 and 2021, the format became part of British meme history when a papier-mache statue of the group was unveiled at Birmingham Weekender in August 2022[11]. ## References 1. [https://thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026]() 2. [https://www.instagram.com/p/BzluHePAM7A/]() 3. [https://twitter.com/BoxeoDeBlog/status/1262849381939716098]() 4. [https://twitter.com/mediobentro/status/1262788930426097666]() 5. [https://twitter.com/harrisonjbrock/status/1270321374276603904]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/four-lads-in-jeans]() 7. [https://www.ladbible.com/community/viral-lads-on-night-out-who-became-viral-meme-speak-out-20210118]() 8. [https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/group-meme-lads-mums-were-23336723]() 9. [https://twitter.com/vonstrenginho/status/1349824512544698369]() 10. [https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/02/02/four-lads-in-jeans-netflix/]() 11. [https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/first-look-statue-four-lads-24871330]() 12. [https://www.instagram.com/p/ChxPnkODapW/?hl=en]() 13. [https://twitter.com/KyleHogan98/status/1348994082580914176]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/four-lads-in-jeans Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library