"Haters gonna hate", paired with an image of someone strutting obliviously (often a cartoon character or a walking pigeon), spread across Tumblr and Reddit in 2010 as the universal response to criticism, alongside "cool story bro" and "u mad?".
- Type
- meme
- Origin
- Hip-hop lyric; image macros from 2010
- Peak
- 2010-2011
- Example
- A strutting cartoon captioned "Haters gonna hate."
Related
- SlangSupported
cool story bro
Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post.
cool story bro: Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post. Example: "cool story bro"
- WebsiteSupported
Tumblr
Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard
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