# *Hits Blunt* The two-panel image macro pairing a hooded, glassy-eyed stoner with an absurd faux-deep question hit Twitter in mid-September 2014, when @JimJones's viral tweet kicked off a wave of *hits blunt* philosophical musings across Black Twitter. Within two weeks it had a dedicated Twitter account, a single-serving domain, and its own Tumblr blog, and *hits blunt* became the shorthand for that particular brand of stoner-thought humor. ## Origin The phrase started surfacing on Twitter in mid-September 2014, with the earliest known viral instance posted by user @JimJones on September 16, 2014, drawing more than 4,400 retweets and 3,200 favorites over the two months that followed[3]. That same day, Complex ran a roundup piece framing the trend as making 'philosophers out of stoners' and comparing the questions to sober Jaden Smith tweets, giving the format its first mainstream write-up[1]. - **Platform:** Twitter - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2014 ## Overview The format pairs a photograph of someone in a hoodie, looking dazed, with the tag *hits blunt* and an absurd, faux-philosophical question they supposedly thought up while smoking[1]. Complex, in its early write-up, compared the humor to the philosophical tweets of Will Smith's son Jaden Smith, who was posting similar-sounding musings sober[1]. Urban Dictionary describes the tag as marking a moment when someone, often high, arrives at a 'realisation of something unrealistic'[2]. Typical questions lean on wordplay ('Why do we park in a driveway and drive in a parkway?'), self-defeating logic loops, and grand-sounding observations about mundane things, played straight against the visibly stoned subject for the comic contrast[1]. The two-panel construction, with the *hits blunt* tag flagging the moment of the supposed thought, became the recognizable template that later stoner-thought posts imitated[1]. ## How It Spread On September 17, a dedicated single-topic Twitter account @HitsBlunt launched with a confused hoodie photo of a young Black man that became the meme's visual signature, and its debut post pulled more than 11,000 retweets and 9,000 favorites in its first months[3]. That same day, listicle roundups from BuzzFeed, FunnyJunk, Uproxx, We Know Memes, and Watch Loud all declared it the newest stoner meme sweeping Twitter, pushing the format from Black Twitter into wider internet culture; HitsBlunt.com was registered as a single-serving site on September 22, 2014, and a dedicated Tumblr blog went up on September 28[3]. Urban Dictionary's entry defining the tag as stoner-realization slang followed, which is how many people outside Twitter first ran into the term[2]. ## How to Use A typical *hits blunt* post uses a two-part layout: a photo of a dazed-looking subject up top, and the caption *hits blunt* on one line followed by an absurd, faux-deep question on the next. Common conventions include self-defeating logic loops, everyday wordplay ('why do we park in a driveway and drive in a parkway'), and mock-profound observations about mundane things, played straight so the absurdity lands without a punchline signal. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is *Hits Blunt*? *Hits Blunt* is a Twitter-born catchphrase and two-panel image macro pairing a confused-looking stoner with an absurd, faux-philosophical question they supposedly thought up while smoking a blunt[1]. ### Where did *Hits Blunt* come from? The format took off on Twitter in mid-September 2014, hitting virality on September 16 with a tweet by @JimJones that drew more than 4,400 retweets over the following two months[3]. ### What does *Hits Blunt* mean? The tag marks the beat before an absurd question, standing in for the stoned pause when someone supposedly arrives at a 'realisation of something unrealistic'[2]. ### How do you use *Hits Blunt*? Pair a photo of a dazed subject with the *hits blunt* label, then deliver a faux-deep question or a self-defeating logic loop played straight for comedy[1]. ### Is *Hits Blunt* still popular? It's a classic 2014 Twitter format that peaked that autumn and became one of the defining stoner-humor templates from that period[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/09/hits-blunt-twitter-meme]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hits%20Blunt]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hits-blunt]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/hits-blunt Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library