XXXTentacion Asks "What's A Father?" In Viral Meme

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An interview of the late rapper XXXXTentacion has recently resurfaced, with a particular clip gaining a lot of attention. Memers are even performing the melodramatic exchange with 99% accuracy.   For more information visit: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/whats-that-whats-a-father-xxxtentacion  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1  #memes #xxxtentacion #viralvideo

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00:00Hearts are breaking across the internet as this resurfaced clip of late rapper

00:04XXXTentacion has recently gone viral and even become a meme.

00:07What's a father meme?

00:08On November 22nd, 2022, The Fader released In His Own Words XXXTentacion,

00:14an unreleased interview with the rapper from 2017.

00:16I wanted to be appreciated.

00:18I wanted to be relative to people that felt the way I felt.

00:22At one point in the video, the interviewer asks the rapper,

00:25Do you have any relationship with your father?

00:27To which he responds,

00:28What's that?

00:30What's a father?

00:34The undoubtedly sad, yet somewhat melodramatic line was reposted on social media

00:39in the following years, spreading slowly until January 31st, 2025,

00:43when two reposts of the clip went viral, one on Instagram and one on X.

00:47On February 2nd, X user Slayworldolby tweeted a screencap of XXXTentacion

00:52from the video and added a caption that turned his quote into a phrasal template

00:55with the dialogue, Do you know who Big Chungus is?

00:58And what's that?

00:59With a little heartbreak emoji.

01:00X users would continue to make memes like this,

01:02replacing the unknown subject in the exchange with all kinds of things

01:06that someone might be heartbreakingly unaware of.

01:08The video also spread to TikTok, where many users would recreate it

01:11as part of the 99.99% accuracy trend of creators reciting lines from viral videos.

01:17Often, users would put on filters imitating the rapper's hair

01:19while reciting the poignant exchange.

01:21Creators also memefied the clip in other ways,

01:23like making absurd edits or fan art depicting the rapper.

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