I'm Glad You Guys Liked "Cocky Want Boing Boing" 'Cause It Got Me Fired — Bald Target employee next to printed tweet showing a beach selfie with 'Cocky want

I'm Glad You Guys Liked "Cocky Want Boing Boing" 'Cause It Got Me Fired

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Published November 12, 2026

"I'm Glad You Guys Liked 'Cocky Want Boing Boing' 'Cause It Got Me Fired" is a follow-up post by X comedian Dan Hentschel, shared on April 23, 2024, claiming his viral bald-old-man beach photoshop had cost him his Target job2. Within two days the post picked up over 229,000 likes, and X users started redrawing it as Undertale, Five Nights at Freddy's and Captain Underpants crossovers35.

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Overview

Hentschel's follow-up pairs two photos: one of him standing outside a Target storefront, the other of him holding a printed copy of the original bald beach edit2. The joke reads as a fake firing confession, letting readers in on the bit that the first post had been a bigger deal than it deserved. X users treated the caption as a phrasal template, swapping "cocky want boing boing" for another in-joke or character name while keeping the sad Target-parking-lot setup3.

Redraws used the same two-panel structure but replaced Hentschel's face with cartoon and video game characters5. The gag worked because the original "Cocky Want Boing Boing" photo was already recognizable, so any redraw read as both a fan art exercise and a joke about getting fired over a stupid viral post4.

Origin & Background

Platform
X (Twitter)
Creator
Dan Hentschel
Date
2024

On April 10, 2024, X user Dan Hentschel posted a photoshop of himself aged and bald at the beach, captioned "At the beach – Where the hoes at? Cocky want boing boing!"1. The original picked up over 25 million views and 95,000 likes in its first five days, and redraws of the bald-beach image spread across X in the weeks after4.

On April 23, 2024, Hentschel posted the follow-up: two photos with the caption "I'm glad you guys liked 'cocky want boing boing' cause it got me fired"2. One shot showed him outside a Target store, the other showed him holding a printed-out copy of the original meme. Over 229,000 likes came in within two days2.

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How It Spread

Redraws started the same day the follow-up went up. On April 23, 2024, X user @idkjustryan posted an Undertale version drawing Hentschel as Gaster, picking up over 9,500 likes in two days3. The next day, @puffycloude posted a Five Nights at Freddy's redraw that collected over 24,000 likes in under a day5.

On April 25, 2024, @Octoprout shared a Captain Underpants version that got over 14,000 likes in under a day6. Fandom redraws leaned on the recognizability of the original bald-beach pose, letting artists keep the Target-parking-lot joke while swapping the character.

Activity around the follow-up ran heaviest through late April 2024 before tailing off; the Know Your Meme entry tracks it as a spinoff of the first post rather than a standalone format4.

Timeline

2024-04-10

Dan Hentschel posts the original "Cocky Want Boing Boing" bald-beach photoshop on X[1].

2024-04-23

Hentschel posts the follow-up claiming the first post got him fired from Target[2].

2024-04-23

X user @idkjustryan posts an Undertale redraw casting Hentschel as Gaster[3].

2024-04-24

@puffycloude posts a Five Nights at Freddy's redraw[5].

2024-04-25

@Octoprout posts a Captain Underpants redraw[6].

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