ESPN ran a segment on 10 years of the Crying Jordan meme

[Dog Based Gremlin]

They were wondering who the original creator of the meme was

It was a funny little segment piece they put together

It's not on YouTube yet

 

[RichYung]

Wild how folks don’t know where that meme sparked off at lol. I remember the first time seeing it outside of The Coli.. I was confused as shyt

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Wild how folks don’t know where that meme sparked off at lol. I remember the first time seeing it outside of The Coli.. I was confused as shyt

Did thecoli invent it?

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Wild how folks don’t know where that meme sparked off at lol. I remember the first time seeing it outside of The Coli.. I was confused as shyt

Coli didnt invent it

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Did thecoli invent it?

Nope

 

[JJ Lions]

The Coli gets a shoutout

"Crying Michael Jordan is a photoshop meme based on a cutout image of former professional basketball player Michael Jordan crying during his 2009 Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech. Online, the image of the tearful Jordan has been frequently used by sports fans to convey sadness in reaction to the defeat of their favorite teams."

"On April 23rd, 2012, an image macro titled "Sad Michael Jordan" was submitted to MemeCrunch,[5] featuring a still image of Jordan crying with the caption "Why / Did I buy the Bobcats?" (shown below)."

"On November 7th, 2014, The Coli Forums[6] member At30wecashout submitted a post featuring various Michael Jordan crying examples."

Crying Michael Jordan | Know Your Meme

So it looks like this was the first one, April 23, 2012, 10 years ago tomorrow.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/031/541/536.jpg

 

[Don'tCallMeLuckyB]

It came from BX… some racist Dominican (I forgot his name) was asked to make a smiley of it from another poster and then it just circulate around different forms, to social media.

the og thread was on bx for years until the poster who asked for the smiley got banned.

 

[Child_Of_God]

The meme came a long way.

 

[Sterling Archer]

@At30wecashout

 

[FrontoBama]

If this site started in 2012, y’all didn’t start that meme lol.

 

[bobbiewishbone]

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Whoever the original creator was can’t they own it/sell it as an NFT? (Is that how it works)

 

[MikelArteta]

If this site started in 2012, y’all didn’t start that meme lol.

we started the remixes

 

[RichYung]

Coli didnt invent it

Wow I definitely thought that popped here. Who sparked it?

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Wow I definitely thought that popped here. Who sparked it?

BX gave it that spark. It’s a billion times easier to make smileys over there and make them official