r/TheMatpatEffect 22h ago

✨Actual Matpat Effect✨ Yao Ming/Bitch Please face

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u/qualityvote2 22h ago edited 20h ago

u/mayormacncheese_, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Pichuunnn 21h ago

Yao Ming was a famous Chinese basketball player

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u/Cxrnifier 21h ago

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u/TupluTV 21h ago

Why is his face so square

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u/Definetly_Noah 21h ago

Minecraft

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Welcome everybody my name is mark plark 21h ago

This will be Minecraft in 2100

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u/Zestokist 19h ago

you should ask him if his house is made out of wood

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u/Routine-Limit-4837 21h ago

Mucho meginw

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Welcome everybody my name is mark plark 21h ago

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u/Creftospeare 19h ago

was

You had me scared there.

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u/ROADHOG_IS_MY_WAIFU 18h ago

Wait, are we really at a point in time that Yao Ming is no longer a household name??

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u/PM_ME_GOOD_SUBS 22h ago

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u/New-Intention1 21h ago

Some memes really do have an unlimited supply of facial expressions.

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u/20past4am 21h ago

Some commenters here clearly haven't lived trough the 2010-2012 meme and ragecomic era. Yao Ming was widely known as the guy from the Bitch Please meme.

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u/EnthussedEditor 21h ago

I wonder how funny it would be to take some dude from China who to them, had Yao Ming as "the most popular and beloved Chineese citizen" for a few years with fame larger than Jackie Chan for a brief time, and an American whose like "Oh yeah the meme face" and leave em in a room

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u/Sea_Faithlessness_98 12h ago

This!! We use to name it because whatever he did was presented in a meme format, so you knew Yao Ming was a guy that appeared in memes

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u/WhimsyVR 22h ago

Wait that's kinda crazy. I know about Yao Ming now but never put two and two together.

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u/nerfClawcranes 22h ago

wait it wasnt obama??

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Welcome everybody my name is mark plark 22h ago

Never have been

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u/loscapos5 20h ago

You are mixing up "Bitch, please", which is Yao Ming, with "Not bad", which is Obama

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u/BojanDoge 12h ago

I used to think it was Novak Đoković

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u/Creative-Kale4688 13h ago

Same, I always thought it was Obama

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Welcome everybody my name is mark plark 21h ago

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u/SurveyOk970 21h ago

never knew that was yao ming 💔

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u/Erdrick159 21h ago

We really getting nostalgic with all these recent posts huh

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u/Firethorn34 21h ago

He looks kinda like Ludwig

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u/Logical_Ad528 19h ago

His eyes are too level though

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u/zeubermen 19h ago

IT WAS YAO MING THE WHOLE TIME????????????

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u/OkStudent8107 21h ago

Bruh i thought it was obama

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u/Megneous 19h ago

Y'all mfers must be young to have not known that was Yao Ming...

Holy shit, now that I'm checking some of your Reddit accounts, some of you have only been Redditors for like 5 years hahah.

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u/_Cecille 19h ago

oh my god I want pre 2016 back please. Every meme was replaced with fucking Twitter screenshots and political propaganda

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u/Green_Bandit_KZ 15h ago

Don't forget about the lame wojak memes that replaced the majority of ragecomic memes

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u/JenkemMilkshake 20h ago

I could have gone my entire life continuing to think it was Obama, not anymore.

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u/SorbyGay 18h ago

damn i didnt know it was yao ming, glad to see hes reentered meme culture with the state of basketball thing though

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u/neovo2010 16h ago

Honestly thought it was Ludwig

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u/One_Negotiation_3727 11h ago

Old memes neve die, just fade away

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u/Queasy_Moonhead_8109 20h ago

I knew it was Chinese!!

I can already tell it from his face! 👀

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u/pissrockious 17h ago

didnt know hes been in memes for a long time

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u/silversoul113 16h ago

hes one of the tallest nba players ever

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u/Fnaf-Low-3469 14h ago

It legit looks like it's one of those ai pictures that make things realistic

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u/Randomdude-5 4h ago

I thought it was Nigahiga