Max Shaulis
This meme became popular after the MTV video music awards
(September 2009) when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift during her award
acceptance speech. Kanye West said that,
“imma let you finish” but another singer, Beyonce, had deserved to win the
award because she had, “one of the best videos of all time”. This became so popular online because people
though it was outrageous for someone to ruin a moment in which someone won an award
just to say someone else deserved it.
Many celebrities at the award show that night had tweeted about the
event involving Kanye West and as a result, he was trending on twitter for the
following days. It was seen as another
outburst from the controversial Kanye West and was then adopted by people on
the Internet who started using it comically.
Videos of the incident were uploaded with Kanye West’s voice auto tuned
as well as other spoofs. It was then
transformed into a meme as people used pictures from the event to then add
captions ranging from all types of categories.
One thing these memes all have in common are the phrases, “imma let you
finish” and “of all time"
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