Xzibit Yo Dawg Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Xzibit Yo Dawg template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it.
Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.
What is the Xzibit Yo Dawg meme?
Yo Dawg features rapper Xzibit grinning widely, the host of MTV's Pimp My Ride, a show where his crew piled outrageous extras into run-down cars. The meme boils that philosophy down to one pattern: "Yo dawg, I heard you like X, so I put an X in your X so you can Y while you Y." It is the internet's favorite joke about recursion and nesting, from a car inside a car to a meme inside a meme, and programmers have kept it alive for years because so much software really works that way.
Origin: Xzibit hosted Pimp My Ride on MTV in the mid-2000s. The snowclone image macro appeared on 4chan around 2007 and spread widely on Reddit and Tumblr afterward.
Also known as: Yo Dawg, Yo Dawg I Heard You Like, Xzibit Meme.
How to use the Xzibit Yo Dawg meme
The top box opens with "yo dawg, I heard you like X". The bottom box finishes with "so I put an X in your X so you can Y while you Y". Whatever X is should be something that can logically or illogically contain itself.
It is a natural fit for tech (VMs in VMs, Docker in Docker, spreadsheets inside spreadsheets), but it also works for snacks, playlists, nested folders and anything with layers. Keep the repetition intact: the doubled word is the punchline.
Xzibit Yo Dawg meme ideas
- yo dawg i heard you like containers / so i put docker in your docker
- yo dawg i heard you like meetings / so we scheduled a meeting about meetings
- yo dawg i heard you like snacks / so i put a snack in your snack
- yo dawg i heard you like folders / so i put a folder in your folder
- yo dawg i heard you like tabs / so i opened a browser in your browser
- yo dawg i heard you like sequels / so we made a sequel to the sequel
About the Xzibit Yo Dawg meme template
The Xzibit Yo Dawg template (yodawg) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “yo dawg / i heard you like memes”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/yodawg/yo_dawg/i_heard_you_like_memes.png
