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Creator Of What Are Those?’ Meme Pissed At ‘Black Panther’ For Using His Phrase

<p>&num;Roommates&comma; back in 2015 social media couldn’t get enough of the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What Are Those&quest;&excl;” memes and they no doubt had pretty much everyone in tears&period; The hype has since died down but that didn’t stop the writers of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Black Panther” from getting in on the fun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the movie&comma; Shuri—- played by Letitia Wright — shows how connected she is to the world beyond Wakanda through the internet&period; In the scene&comma; her brother T’Challa was looking at some of her inventions and asked her a question about a particular one&comma; saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And what is this&quest;” She looked at his sandles and shaded him&comma; saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The real question is&colon; What are thoooose&quest;&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The viral meme was originally posted by creator Busco &lpar;Brandon Moore&rpar; on June 14&comma; 2015&comma; but blew up days later after Vine user A-RODney King uploaded it&period; The Huffington Post reports that it had acquired up to 40 million loops&comma; with over 200&comma;000 re-vines and other posts which kept the phrase going for so long&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When viewers heard the phrase in the movie it no doubt caught them off guard&comma; but no one was more surprised than the creator of the phrase himself&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When I saw &lbrack;the scene&rsqb;&comma; my girl was trying to record it &lbrack;in the theater&rsqb;”&comma; Brandon told HuffPost&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I slapped the phone out of her hand because I was like&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;I don’t want to f—ing be a part of this&period;’”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For real&comma;” he added&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every time I see that sh—&comma; I get depressed&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brandon said he regrets not protecting his work prior to the meme going viral&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I be depressed every time knowing I didn’t full court press on an opportunity that I created&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I actually got a deal&period; I did a contract with the people that did Vine&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They monetize it for the YouTube sh—t&comma; the monetizing sh—t&period; I was getting a check off the YouTube sh—t&comma; but people talking about copyrighting&comma; I should do this&comma; that…”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would’ve put my watermark on the video&period; I would’ve put my face on the video when I did it&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would’ve copyrighted it&period; I would’ve done a whole lot of sh—t different&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He admits&comma; however&comma; that a brief run in with the law messed up one of the the biggest opportunities for him&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If I had been home&comma; I would’ve started sweating my page with hella videos … but it is what it is … I ain’t gonna cry about it&comma;” he continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He ended spending two weeks in jail&comma; and said that once he had gotten out people had already begun selling merchandise&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I didn’t do what I was supposed to do when everybody getting paid off this sh&ast;t&comma; and I’m not&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I feel good I created something that’ll be with the world forever&comma; but then I feel bad because I didn’t handle my business part correctly&period; I don’t know nothing about no mother—-g trademarking&period; I’m a n&ast;&ast;&ast;a from the streets… I had to take it on the chin&comma; man&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"36735" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;creator-meme-pissed-black-panther-using-phrase&sol;" data-secure&equals;"a5508e3f4d"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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