# WAGTFKY WAGTFKY stands for "We Are Going To Fucking Kill You," an acronym X users started pairing with photos of J.D. Vance, Donald Trump and other Republican figures in late 2024. The joke began when @CityBureaucrat edited a Vance campaign fundraising email in August 2024, and by January 2025 posters were captioning Vance's official Vice Presidential portrait with the phrase as a running bit about how menacing the image already looked. ## Origin X user @CityBureaucrat kicked off the format on August 27, 2024, after receiving what he described as an "increasingly threatening" fundraising email from J.D. Vance's campaign. He photoshopped the subject line "This Could Be My Final Message" into "We Are Going To Fucking Kill You" and posted the altered image, which collected around 400 likes over the next five months[1][8]. Two months later, on October 28, 2024, @woke8yearold reposted the edit with the comment that it was "Yet another anti-Trump Vance meme that ends up looking extremely badass." That reframe caught on and the repost cleared 11,000 likes in three months, setting up the "the image already looks like this" reading that drove the January 2025 wave of WAGTFKY posts[2]. - **Platform:** X / Twitter - **Creator:** @CityBureaucrat - **Date:** 2024 ## Overview Posts in the WAGTFKY format pair an official photo of a Republican politician, usually J.D. Vance or Donald Trump, with the full "We Are Going To Fucking Kill You" caption styled to look like a fundraising email or campaign graphic[2]. The joke works because so many of the portraits already look glowering and backlit, so the death-threat caption reads as a straight description of what the image seems to say on its own[3]. Vance's VP portrait anchored several of the biggest January 2025 versions, with @ManDaveJobGood arguing the subject himself must want every image captioned that way[3]. Variants expand the subject pool. @kikisknees added glowing laser eyes to Barron Trump and tagged it "WAGTFKY…and we have 4 years to make it perfect"[6]. @The_WGD applied the line to a photo of Vance meeting Han Zheng, the Vice President of China, and called every picture of Vance "'we are going to fucking kill you, dawg'coded"[4]. The acronym also travels as text-only shorthand, as when @shortmagsmle argued the federal renaming of Mount McKinley "should be interpreted as a warning that WAGTFKY"[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is WAGTFKY? WAGTFKY is an acronym for "We Are Going To Fucking Kill You," a catchphrase X users pair with photos of Republican figureheads, especially J.D. Vance and Donald Trump[8]. ### Where did WAGTFKY come from? X user @CityBureaucrat created it on August 27, 2024 by photoshopping a J.D. Vance campaign fundraising email so the subject line read "We Are Going To Fucking Kill You"[1]. ### What does WAGTFKY mean? It is shorthand for "We Are Going To Fucking Kill You," the line @CityBureaucrat pasted into a fake Vance email in August 2024[1][2]. ### How do you use WAGTFKY? Common convention is to overlay the acronym or full phrase on an official or stern-looking photo of a Republican politician, as @ManDaveJobGood did with Vance's VP portrait in January 2025[3]. ### Is WAGTFKY still popular? Usage peaked around Donald Trump's second inauguration in January 2025, when posts applying the line to Vance's portrait and his meeting with Han Zheng gathered more than 12,000[3] and 13,000 likes[4]. ## References 1. [https://x.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1828559322227339277]() 2. [https://x.com/woke8yearold/status/1851026016866877710]() 3. [https://x.com/ManDaveJobGood/status/1879890322802811172]() 4. [https://x.com/The_WGD/status/1881061027066114202]() 5. [https://twitter.com/sadreturns/status/1881821994397884674]() 6. [https://x.com/kikisknees/status/1881556235344122119]() 7. [https://x.com/shortmagsmle/status/1882082253297340760]() 8. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wagtfky]() 9. [https://x.com/sadreturns/status/1881211307481055377]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/wagtfky Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library