# Me Too Thanks > Me Too Thanks is a 2014 copypasta response from Reddit's r/me_irl community, where users universally replied to relatable posts about social awkwardness and self-deprecating humor. "Me too thanks" is a catchphrase and copypasta response that spread out of the Reddit community r/me_irl around 2014-2015. Users dropped "me too thanks" as a reply to any post they found relatable, especially ones dealing with social awkwardness, mild despair, or self-deprecating humor. The phrase became so tightly linked to r/me_irl that it functioned as the subreddit's unofficial motto. ## Origin The phrase grew organically on r/me_irl, a subreddit dedicated to posting images and situations captioned "me irl" (me in real life). The subreddit's culture rewarded low-effort, relatable content about depression, loneliness, and the small indignities of daily life. "Me too thanks" emerged as the natural comment-section response to this stream of shared misery. By late 2014 and into 2015, the phrase had become a fixture in r/me_irl comment sections. Users would chain dozens of "me too thanks" replies in a row, creating long threads of nothing but the same three words[1]. Moderators sometimes joined these chains, which only reinforced the phrase's status as community ritual[1]. - **Platform:** Reddit (r/me_irl) - **Creator:** Unknown (community-created on r/me_irl) - **Date:** 2014 ## Overview "Me too thanks" is a short, deadpan phrase posted as a reply to content that feels personally relatable. The humor sits in the absurd universality of the response. Someone posts about wanting to sleep forever? "Me too thanks." Someone shares a picture of a sad frog? "Me too thanks." The phrase strips away any need for a thoughtful reply and replaces it with pure, low-effort solidarity. The "thanks" at the end is what gives the phrase its distinctive flavor. It's not just agreement. It adds a layer of polite resignation, like thanking someone for putting your exact feelings into words[1]. The phrase works best when the original content is bleak, mundane, or absurdly specific, and the responder just... agrees. ## How It Spread The phrase moved beyond r/me_irl as the subreddit itself grew in popularity during 2015-2016. As r/me_irl posts hit Reddit's front page more frequently, new users encountered "me too thanks" and carried it to other subreddits and platforms. On Twitter and Tumblr, "me too thanks" showed up as a caption or reply to screenshots of relatable content. The phrase fit neatly into the broader wave of self-deprecating internet humor that defined mid-2010s online culture. It sat alongside phrases like "same," "big mood," and "this is so me" but had its own specific Reddit-flavored identity. The related subreddit r/meirl (no underscores) and r/me_irl existed in parallel, with the phrase common to both communities. The underscore subreddit's stricter moderation policies led some users to migrate, but "me too thanks" traveled with them. By 2017-2018, the phrase had peaked as a standalone meme but had thoroughly embedded itself in the vocabulary of online self-deprecating humor. It became one of those phrases people used without necessarily knowing where it came from. ## How to Use Using "me too thanks" is simple by design: 1. Find a post, image, or statement that you relate to on a personal level 2. Reply with "me too thanks" 3. That's it ## Cultural Impact "Me too thanks" is one of the defining phrases of Reddit's me_irl community, which itself shaped a whole generation of self-deprecating internet humor. The subreddit and its signature phrase helped normalize talking about depression and social anxiety in meme form, long before "mental health memes" became a recognized genre. The phrase also represents a specific era of internet culture where the humor came from the absolute minimum effort response. Where earlier memes required image editing or creative captions, "me too thanks" proved that three words could be the entire joke if the context was right. It's worth noting that "me too thanks" predates the #MeToo movement (which went viral in October 2017) and is entirely unrelated. The similarity in phrasing occasionally caused confusion, but the two occupy completely different cultural spaces. ## Fun Facts - The phrase often appeared in comment chains so long that Reddit's "show more replies" feature had to be clicked multiple times to see the full extent of the "me too thanks" cascade[1]. - Urban Dictionary defines the phrase as expressing both relatability and gratitude for a relatable story, "usually used in reference to mild disappointment or jokes about suicide"[1]. - r/me_irl briefly implemented a rule where users could only comment "me too thanks" on certain themed days. - The subreddit r/me_irl was one of the first major Reddit communities to popularize the "upvote this so it shows up when you Google" format, which spread alongside "me too thanks" culture. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Me Too Thanks? "Me too thanks" is a catchphrase used as a reply to relatable content, especially posts about social awkwardness or mild existential dread. It originated on Reddit's r/me_irl community[1]. ### Where did Me Too Thanks come from? The phrase grew out of the r/me_irl subreddit on Reddit around 2014-2015, where users posted "me in real life" content and replied to each other with "me too thanks" as a shorthand for agreement[1]. ### What does Me Too Thanks mean? It means "I relate to this, and thank you for expressing it." The "thanks" adds a tone of polite resignation to simple agreement[1]. ### How do you use Me Too Thanks? Reply "me too thanks" to any post or statement you find relatable. It works best with self-deprecating, melancholy, or absurdly mundane content[1]. ### Is Me Too Thanks still popular? The phrase peaked around 2015-2017 but is still recognized and used in Reddit communities. It's a classic piece of me_irl vocabulary that most longtime Reddit users understand. ### Is Me Too Thanks related to the #MeToo movement? No. "Me too thanks" predates the #MeToo movement by several years and comes from an entirely different context. The Reddit phrase is about relatable self-deprecating humor, not sexual harassment awareness. ### Why do people say "thanks" at the end? The "thanks" is what distinguishes the phrase from simply saying "same" or "me too." It adds an absurd politeness, as if genuinely thanking someone for articulating a shared feeling of defeat[1]. ### What is r/me_irl? r/me_irl is a Reddit subreddit where users post images, screenshots, and memes captioned "me irl" (me in real life). The community is known for self-deprecating humor and was the birthplace of "me too thanks." ## References 1. [Harlem Shake (meme)]() 2. [Me Too Thanks - Urban Dictionary]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/me-too-thanks Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library