# John Silver Explaining to Anna Jay A still of AEW wrestler John Silver yapping at Anna Jay, who widens her eyes and looks away, caught on with Twitter users in February 2022 as a bro-explaining style caption format. The frame came from a Being The Elite sketch where Silver plays a drunk cornering Jay with personal stories, and by February 9th viral captions were already running NFTs and 2b2t through Silver's mouth. ## Origin The source clip aired on September 13, 2021, when the Being The Elite YouTube channel uploaded episode 273, titled 'Catching Up'[1]. In a sketch starting around the seven-minute mark, John Silver plays a drunk guy barraging his AEW stablemate Anna Jay with increasingly unhinged personal stories as she visibly tries to escape the conversation, part of The Elite stable's recurring comedy bits on the channel[3]. On February 7, 2022, bot account @good_faces_bot posted a still from the sketch showing Silver mid-sentence with Jay's eyes bulging away, where it collected over 620 retweets, 1,400 quote tweets, and 9,500 likes within four days[2]. Earlier limited meme use appeared in February 2021 around episode 241, 'The Betrayal Is Real,' which featured a similar expression from Jay[6], with scattered posts from accounts like @GlobalForceGold[7] and @snoringelbow[8] going nowhere at the time. - **Platform:** YouTube (source clip) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** @good_faces_bot (earliest viral still poster) - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview Captions put a rambling monologue in Silver's mouth about something a poster wants to depict as insufferable, with Jay's wide-eyed glance away acting as the trapped listener. Common subjects include obscure gaming communities, crypto and NFTs, and inside-baseball fandom drama, which lines up the image with the earlier Bro Explaining format but adds wrestling-specific recognition for AEW fans[3]. The viral still from @good_faces_bot catches the exact moment Jay breaks eye contact, giving posters a reusable one-panel template with no cropping needed[2]. Longer riffs sometimes stack several quote tweets to run a multi-paragraph rant, while most entries stay as one image plus one caption of whatever topic the poster thinks nobody wants to hear about. ## How to Use Typically the image is captioned with a long monologue in Silver's voice about a topic the poster wants to paint as self-indulgent or exhausting to listen to. Common conventions include writing the rant as if Silver has cornered someone at a party, often about crypto, niche video game servers, or online fandom lore. Some posters chain the image across multiple quote tweets to extend the bit. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is John Silver Explaining to Anna Jay? A reaction image where AEW wrestler John Silver appears to talk at Anna Jay while she looks away wide-eyed, captioned as a bro-explaining style monologue format[3]. ### Where did John Silver Explaining to Anna Jay come from? The still comes from Being The Elite episode 273, 'Catching Up,' uploaded to YouTube on September 13, 2021, with the sketch starting around the seven-minute mark[1]. ### What does John Silver Explaining to Anna Jay mean? It depicts someone being cornered by a know-it-all monologue, with Jay's expression standing in for the trapped listener who wants to leave the conversation[2]. ### How do you use John Silver Explaining to Anna Jay? Caption the image with a long rant in Silver's voice about a topic the poster finds insufferable, as @benpaste did with 2b2t[4] or @kielbasagarage did with NFTs[5]. ### Is John Silver Explaining to Anna Jay still popular? The format had its main viral run in February 2022 around the @good_faces_bot still[2] and the NFT caption by @kielbasagarage[5], with usage declining since. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EykCKYzBIU]() 2. [https://twitter.com/good_faces_bot/status/1490762312047001600]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-silver-explaining-to-anna-jay]() 4. [https://twitter.com/benpaste/status/1490782169026940928]() 5. [https://twitter.com/kielbasagarage/status/1491458653299572737]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3d5D4ju-v0]() 7. [https://twitter.com/GlobalForceGold/status/1357047875323260930]() 8. [https://twitter.com/snoringelbow/status/1367293063475851265]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/john-silver-explaining-to-anna-jay Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library