# Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? 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. ## Origin Comic artist Mysillycomics posted the four-panel strip titled "A True Conversationalist" to Twitter on July 23, 2018, and to Tumblr the same day[1][2]. 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 posting[5]. - **Platform:** Twitter / Tumblr (origin), Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Mysillycomics - **Date:** 2018 ## 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 along[5]. 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 wrong[3]. Later edits pushed the gag toward darker outcomes, with the final panel underlining problems the human character clearly missed[9]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Hey Little Man Hows It Goin?? It is a 2018 four-panel webcomic by Mysillycomics in which a person fails to understand a baby's babble and replies with a flat "yea," later reused as a reaction image for objects that cannot voice their problems[1][5]. ### Where did Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? come from? Mysillycomics posted the strip titled "A True Conversationalist" to Twitter and Tumblr on July 23, 2018[1][2]. ### What does Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? mean? The joke captures the gap between an oblivious listener and a speaker who cannot make themselves understood, with the final "yea" panel standing in for a lazy, clueless reply[5]. ### How do you use Hey Little Man Hows It Goin?? Common versions caption the baby as an object or animal in distress, such as kyromanji's BMW edit on r/BMW, while the adult plays the clueless owner nodding along[3]. ### Is Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? still popular? After @ChumsKnifeblade's July 2020 repost drew over 74,900 likes, the comic held on as a recognizable reaction format for muted-communication jokes[9]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/mysillycomics/status/1021295303268462592]() 2. [https://mysillycomics.tumblr.com/post/176184367180]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/comments/akcslh/we_can_all_relate/]() 4. [https://www.facebook.com/nigelnigelnigelnigelnigelnigelnigelnigelnigelnigel/posts/1514681215343035]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hey-little-man-hows-it-goin-yea]() 6. [https://www.facebook.com/dullahanpatchco/posts/1002362773296304]() 7. [https://www.instagram.com/p/BtK167ggrS1/]() 8. [https://ifunny.co/picture/WnW3ffEW7]() 9. [https://twitter.com/ChumsKnifeblade/status/1287584046839734284]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/hey-little-man-hows-it-goin-yea Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library