When The Random E-Celeb You Dislike Is Finally Outed — Black meme image with greentext about disliked e-celebs being outed, above portrait of man in blue suit

When The Random E-Celeb You Dislike Is Finally Outed

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Published October 21, 2026

A photo of Tariq Nasheed paired with a long caption celebrating when an annoying internet personality finally gives viewers 'a legitimate reason to dislike them' turned into a reaction format in 2022 after X user @5ega5aturn5tan posted the earliest known version. By October of that year, @_Johei_ aimed the image at Minecraft YouTuber Dream and gathered more than 30,000 likes on X.

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Overview

A stern-looking Tariq Nasheed photo sits above a wall of text about disliking an internet personality 'for just being dumb and annoying and unfunny' until they are 'outed for a legitimate reason to dislike them'3. Posters deploy the image whenever a creator they already found grating gets accused of something concrete, lending retroactive justification to a vibe-based hunch.

A second common pattern recycles the Nasheed photo while changing the subject entirely. Tumblr fandom users rewrote the caption to target disliked head canons once a show finally invalidated them4, and iFunny posters reworked the layout as a Pirate Posting bit about a 'scurvy landlubber'5. Tone sits between vindication and sarcasm, often aimed at YouTube or Twitch figures mid-scandal.

Origin & Background

Platform
X / Reddit (viral spread)
Creator
@5ega5aturn5tan
Date
2022

@5ega5aturn5tan, an X account later suspended, posted the earliest known combination of the Tariq Nasheed photo and the 'random e-celeb you dislike' caption sometime before July 20223. That original tweet is no longer online, so the exact posting date and full context stayed unconfirmed.

Earliest known use of the screenshot as a reaction to an actual canceled creator landed on /r/gamingcirclejerk on July 28, 2022, where the post gathered over 3,000 upvotes across the following two years1. The thread referenced a dispute involving streamers Hyojin and Felix, applying the Nasheed image to a real-time controversy rather than a hypothetical one.

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How It Spread

On October 13, 2022, X user @_Johei_ attached the image to a tweet tagged '#dreamisafreak,' a swipe at Minecraft YouTuber Dream amid allegations circulating at the time, and the post picked up more than 30,000 likes within two years2. That tweet helped move the format out of niche subreddit use and into general X circulation.

Tumblr took the format in a fandom direction on March 31, 2023, when @carlyraejepsans edited the caption to read 'When the random hc you dislike for just being dumb and annoying and unfunny finally is disproven by canon,' gathering over 30,000 notes in a year4. On April 26, 2023, iFunny user @monstergirls_galore made a Pirate Posting version with 175 smiles over the next year5, and on June 9, 2023, Redditor shan-jee posted a Super Mario spin to /r/okbuddyretard with the caption 'i cooka da pizza mama mia'6.

Know Your Meme catalogued the format in 2024, grouping the e-celeb reaction use and the fandom edits under a single entry3.

Timeline

2022-07

X user @5ega5aturn5tan posts the earliest known Tariq Nasheed macro with the 'random e-celeb you dislike' caption; the original tweet is later deleted.

2022-07-28

A /r/gamingcirclejerk post uses the image to react to a Hyojin and Felix streamer dispute, gathering over 3,000 upvotes[1].

2022-10-13

X user @_Johei_ tags the meme #dreamisafreak during allegations against Minecraft YouTuber Dream; the post gathers over 30,000 likes[2].

2023-03-31

Tumblr user @carlyraejepsans edits the caption to target disliked fandom head canons disproven by canon, gathering over 30,000 notes[4].

2023-04-26

IFunny user @monstergirls_galore posts a Pirate Posting version of the format[5].

2023-06-09

Redditor shan-jee posts a Super Mario version to /r/okbuddyretard captioned 'i cooka da pizza mama mia'[6].

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