Nobody: — Text meme reading 'literally no one:' then 'me: im sorry :/'

Nobody:

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Published September 10, 2026

The "Nobody:" or "Literally No One:" tweet format popped up on Twitter in September 2018 as a way to mock people who volunteer opinions nobody asked for. It hit peak virality that autumn and winter, spawning sub-genres from J.K. Rowling Harry Potter parodies to emoji road-crossing scenes, and later landed on TikTok in May 2019 as an in-app effect used in tens of thousands of videos.

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Overview

The joke works through a two-line setup. The first line reads "Nobody:" or "Literally no one:" (sometimes followed by an empty pause), and the second line reads "Me:" or names a specific person, group, or archetype, followed by the unprompted thing they said or did2. The gag lives on the imagined silence that gets interrupted before someone barges in with an opinion nobody solicited.

Riffs range from self-deprecating jokes about one's own weird behavior to targeted mockery of astrology posters, people who vape, and old classmates now running pyramid schemes2. Some entries drop the "Me:" second line entirely and instead name a stereotype ("a pisces:", "boys who are gamers:", "girls in their 20s:") before the punchline2.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter
Date
2018

The exact origin is unclear, but tweets using the "Literally no one" and "Literally nobody" phrasing can be traced to at least September 1, 20183. On September 2, 2018, Twitter user @greenlight posted one of the earliest viral entries in the format, describing an unprovoked Spooktober speech from a woman "with no personality." The tweet pulled in over 12,300 retweets and 64,300 likes over the following five months35. From there, other users started running the same setup aimed at various targets.

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How It Spread

Through October and November 2018, the setup showed up in tweets aimed at everyone from moms declaring themselves the only person doing anything around the house to twelve-year-olds reciting Taylor Swift lyrics in stylized unicode2. One popular tweet by @antoniiogarza21, posted October 23, 2018, hit over 3,900 retweets and 32,100 likes in four months3.

Starting November 17, 2018, a sub-genre took off in which J.K. Rowling was cast as the person volunteering random unsolicited Harry Potter lore, riffing on the author's real habit of tweeting extra series details unprompted1. The Daily Dot covered the Rowling parodies on January 28, 20191, and Ruin My Week rounded up the wider "Literally No One" trend the following day2.

In February 2019, another spin-off emerged: emoji-and-unicode scenes showing various creatures crossing a road, with the "No one:" setup naming what was about to cross (chickens, deer, college students, goats). Pop Buzz covered the road-crossing variant on February 5, 20194. In May 2019, TikTok added an in-app "The Nobody Meme" effect that framed the shot with a "me:" caption, and the effect was used in over 98,100 videos within its first month3.

Timeline

2018-09-01

First tweets using the "Literally no one" and "Literally nobody" phrasing appear on Twitter.

2018-09-02

@greenlight posts an early viral entry about a Spooktober speech from a woman "with no personality," eventually reaching over 64,300 likes.

2018-10-23

@antoniiogarza21's tweet in the format hits over 3,900 retweets and 32,100 likes.

2018-11-17

J.K. Rowling Tweet Parodies sub-genre begins, casting Rowling as the person volunteering random Harry Potter lore.

2019-01-28

The Daily Dot covers the J.K. Rowling "no one" parodies.

2019-01-29

Ruin My Week rounds up the broader "Literally No One" tweet trend.

2019-02-02

Emoji road-crossing sub-genre starts circulating on Twitter.

2019-02-05

Pop Buzz covers the road-crossing "no one" variant.

2019-05

TikTok launches "The Nobody Meme" effect, used in over 98,100 videos in its first month.

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