Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? — Line-drawn smiling cartoon figure with large eyes standing beneath the word 'yea'.

Hey Little Man Hows It Goin?

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Published November 11, 2026

Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? / Yea started as a July 2018 four-panel webcomic by Mysillycomics in which a person fails to understand a baby's gibberish and mumbles a flat "yea" in response. After a viral July 2020 Twitter repost, users began captioning the final panel onto cars, pets and appliances voicing problems their owners could not grasp.

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Overview

Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? / Yea works as a reaction image cut from the final panel of a Mysillycomics strip, where a person stares blankly after failing to parse baby gibberish and answers with a flat "yea"1. Meme makers caption the baby with something going wrong, usually from the point of view of an object or animal that cannot speak, while the adult figure stands in for an oblivious listener nodding along5.

Common versions feature cars, pets, appliances or inanimate items voicing distress through nonsense syllables, with the "yea" panel landing as a punchline about how unheard they are. The earliest remix on Reddit gave a BMW the baby's role, letting the driver nod along as the car tried to explain what was wrong3. Later edits pushed the gag toward darker outcomes, with the final panel underlining problems the human character clearly missed9.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter / Tumblr (origin), Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
Mysillycomics
Date
2018

Comic artist Mysillycomics posted the four-panel strip titled "A True Conversationalist" to Twitter on July 23, 2018, and to Tumblr the same day12. In the comic, a person leans toward a baby and asks "hey little man hows it goin," the baby answers in babble like "dahdakoo abaa," the person pauses for a panel of silent staring, then says "yea"1. According to KYM, the Tumblr version collected over 50,400 likes and reblogs within two years of posting5.

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How It Spread

Redditor kyromanji repurposed the strip as a meme format on January 27, 2019, editing a BMW into the baby panel for the r/BMW subreddit, where the post collected over 1,700 upvotes in six months3. That same day, Facebook user Nigel reposted the original comic and gathered over 400 reactions and 2,200 shares within two years4. Facebook page Dullahan Patch Co followed with what KYM lists as the earliest known derivative remix in the format6.

Instagram user slothdive posted another early edit on February 1, 2019, reaching over 9,100 likes7. Wider traction arrived on March 21, 2020, when iFunny user TheBostonian reposted the comic and gathered over 64,000 smiles in seven months8. Posts spiked on July 26, 2020, after Twitter user @ChumsKnifeblade reposted it, drawing over 12,000 retweets and 74,900 likes in three months9. After that repost, the "yea" panel saw steady reuse as a reaction to objects and animals that cannot articulate what is wrong with them5.

Timeline

2018-07-23

Mysillycomics posts the four-panel comic "A True Conversationalist" to Twitter and Tumblr.

2019-01-27

Redditor kyromanji posts the first known meme edit, a BMW version, to r/BMW.

2019-01-27

Facebook page Dullahan Patch Co posts the earliest known derivative remix.

2019-02-01

Instagram user slothdive posts an early edit that reaches over 9,100 likes.

2020-03-21

IFunny user TheBostonian reposts the comic and gathers over 64,000 smiles in seven months.

2020-07-26

Twitter user @ChumsKnifeblade reposts the comic, drawing over 12,000 retweets and 74,900 likes.

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