# Two Sperm Cells Talking Two Sperm Cells Talking adapts an early-2000s dirty comic in which one sperm cell daydreams about becoming a human while the other reveals they are not actually inside a womb. After a translated 2017 redraw went viral, Reddit users turned the punchline panel into a reusable template, spawning the 'Bruh We In X' and 'I Can't Wait to Be An X' snowclones that defined the format through 2020. ## Origin The original strip's artist is unknown; it appears to have been scanned from a book or magazine and passed around online in the early 2000s. The oldest surviving copy was uploaded on May 5th, 2004, by Blogspot user The Wizard of 'Oz'[1]. In the comic, two sperm swim through a long passage; one asks how far it is to the fallopian tubes, and the other indirectly reveals that they were released during oral sex. The image spread through dirty-cartoon collections such as a May 18th, 2008 eBaum's World post by user KillerP[2]. In December 2015, German cartoonist Norman Winter put a near-identical redraw on the cover of his humor book 'Schluss Mit Lustig!'[4], and a translated version of that redraw went viral through Imgur and Facebook in mid-February 2017[3], setting up the comic's return to meme circulation. - **Platform:** Unknown print comic (early 2000s) / Reddit (meme template) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2017 ## Overview The format runs on a two-panel setup. In the first panel, one sperm cell daydreams about what kind of human it hopes to become, often along the lines of 'I can't wait to be an athlete.' The second cell flattens the fantasy by naming where they actually ended up, usually phrased 'Bruh, we in X' for a gross or absurd setting[6]. Those two lines produced the 'I Can't Wait to Be An X' and 'Bruh We In X' snowclones that identify the format[5]. Most Reddit edits use only the second panel as a reusable template with the punchline swapped. From May 2019 on, creators also recaptioned the whole original comic, scripting both cells to lead into a taboo setting[7]. A mid-2020 Facebook rewrite shifted the target from the sperm cells themselves to the person named by the first cell, giving the format a new life as a way to mock fandoms, politicians, and online subcultures[9]. ## How to Use Creators typically take the second panel of the original comic and replace the sperm cell's punchline with 'Bruh, we in X,' where X names an absurd or disgusting destination[7]. For the full-comic variant, both speech bubbles are rewritten; the first cell announces a hope or identity, and the second cell answers with where they really are. The June 2020 recaptioning convention names a specific person or group in the first bubble so that the subject of the joke shifts to that target instead of the sperm themselves[9]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Two Sperm Cells Talking? It is an image-macro meme based on an older adult comic in which two sperm cells chat, with the second cell revealing a gross or absurd destination instead of a womb. The template drives the 'I Can't Wait to Be An X' and 'Bruh We In X' snowclones[5]. ### Where did Two Sperm Cells Talking come from? The original comic's artist is unknown; it circulated online from the early 2000s, with the oldest surviving repost uploaded by Blogspot user The Wizard of 'Oz' on May 5th, 2004[1]. The meme template itself took off on Reddit in late 2017[5]. ### What does Two Sperm Cells Talking mean? The joke undercuts a hopeful line about becoming a certain kind of person with a disgusting reveal about where the sperm actually are. After a June 2020 Facebook rewrite, the format shifted to mocking the person named in the first speech bubble instead of the sperm themselves[9]. ### How do you use Two Sperm Cells Talking? The common convention is to swap the punchline cell's line with 'Bruh, we in X' for an absurd or gross setting, while the full-comic variant rewrites both speech bubbles to script a longer setup[7]. ### Is Two Sperm Cells Talking still popular? The format peaked between 2017 and 2020 across r/dankmemes, r/DeepFriedMemes, r/HolUp and Facebook, with the Relapse Row recaption driving its last major surge in June 2020[9]. It is a classic Reddit template rather than an active trending format. ## References 1. [https://othersiderainbow.blogspot.com/2004/05/what-sperm-really-talk-about-to-pass.html]() 2. [https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/dirty-cartoons/418338/]() 3. [https://imgur.com/gallery/IoKb0]() 4. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28368573-schwarzer-humor-aus-der-horrorklinik-2]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/two-sperm-cells-talking]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepFriedMemes/comments/97ra8l/it_really_do_like_that_sometimes/]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/bt3y84/bruh_we_in_a_dead_rat/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/bt78mx/hol_up/]() 9. [https://www.facebook.com/189826331682879/posts/561340161198159]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/two-sperm-cells-talking Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library