https://twitter.com/RyanWindoww/status/823579333969252352
A new meme is here to dispense the invaluable advice we definitely needed today. Roll Safe now joins the august ranks of other recent Twitter memes like Evil Kermit and Black Twitter Verification Questions.
It comes from a screencap of actor Kayode Ewumi playing the character Reece aka R.S aka Roll Safe on the BBC Three series Hood Documentary last June. In this clip, he taps his temple and grins slyly after making a cheeky oral sex joke, and a meme was born. Well, it was born much later.
The first meme came in November of last year, via Twitter account Footy Humor, but the meme stayed lonely for a long time after this one:
When you piss her off on purpose, so she can say goodnight at 6pm and you can just play FIFA for the rest of the day in peace. pic.twitter.com/UrM5QvrV5A
— Footy Humour (@FootyHumour) November 15, 2016
Roll Safe didn’t really get rolling until January 22nd, when @trapfasa posted this:
https://twitter.com/trapafasa/status/823232968512704514
The next day, @RyanWindoww posted the joke at the top of this page, which went massively viral with 75K likes and 48K retweets as of this writing.
Then a couple more memes made the rounds, and the jokes started showing up on Reddit as well as Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Trillxdadian/status/826194498740969472
https://twitter.com/girlposts/status/825495363700277248
Meme makers, ROLL OUT:
https://twitter.com/amararose_/status/827682539355721735
https://twitter.com/rainaastarr/status/828485764799279105
https://twitter.com/PilosopoTanya/status/828184707611258880
You don't have to make ice cream if you say it's broke pic.twitter.com/vDiEthAaEa
— Antonio 飲み友達 (@TonioTheBaker) February 2, 2017
You don't have to learn martial arts if you kill them with one punch. pic.twitter.com/pY17G63qyM
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 4, 2017
You don't have to shoot a man if you throw him out of a plane. pic.twitter.com/PzMJ71Fw0c
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 3, 2017
You don't have to post a jpg if you have a gif pic.twitter.com/xiH6xj4RWv
— 2C (@Cellix1) February 5, 2017
(Via Dorkly, Know Your Meme, Hip Hop Humor, and Jeff)