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The “Confused Nick Young” meme features NBA star Nick Young smiling with his head slightly tilted to the side. Two sets of three question marks are on either side of his head.
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Origin
The meme is a screen shot taken from an online series called Thru the Lens directed by Cassy Athena. The series followed a day in the life of athletes and celebrities.
Young’s episode was the first episode that was filmed for the series but was released as the fourth episode of the first season in 2014.
Athena followed Young and his assistant, Big Meat, as they laugh and joke their way through life in LA with family and friends.
At one point, Young’s mother is talking to Athena about Young’s childhood. She says he was the neighborhood prankster who kept everyone worried that they’d be his next target.
She says that when he was a kid he even joked around when he was with a big NBA star. She said that when Cedric Ceballos played with the LA Lakers in the mid-90s, he worked out at a nearby gym. Young would walk in, grab the ball from Ceballos, put on a basketball performance that mainly involved acting crazy, hand the ball back to Ceballos and then leave.
She said the Ceballos remarked that if that kid, meaning Young, ever took the game seriously, he’d be great. But, she added, “he was a clown then.”
When she refers to Young as a clown, he tilts his head in wonder, giving birth to the Confused Nick Young.
For emphasis, someone added the question mark graphics to that screen shot.
Meaning
Confused Nick Young is used to show befuddlement over something. For example, if you don’t understand the latest tweet from Donald Trump or why your favorite sports team just made such a bone-headed trade, the Nick Young meme will perfectly capture your mental state.
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Rather fittingly, the origins of the question mark are clouded in myth and mystery. One of the most appealing stories links the curve of the question mark to the shape of an inquisitive cat’s tail. This feline connection is either attributed to the ancient Egyptians (who were, of course, famed for their worship of cats), or to a monk who took inspiration from his curious pet cat, and included the symbol in his manuscript. A parallel story suggests that the exclamation mark derives from the shape of a surprised cat’s tail! Sadly, like many of the most charming and amusing origin stories, there is no evidence to back up this tale.
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Another possibility links the question mark with the Latin word quaestio (‘question’). Supposedly, in the Middle Ages scholars would write ‘quaestio’ at the end of a sentence to show that it was a question, which in turn was shortened to qo. Eventually, the q was written on top of the o, before steadily morphing into a recognisably modern question mark. However, just like our cat friends above, there is no manuscript evidence for this theory.
The story accepted by most involves Alcuin of York, an English scholar and poet born in 735, who was invited to join the court of Charlemagne in 781. Once there, Alcuin became one of Charlemagne’s chief advisors, and wrote a great number of books, including some works on grammar. In the early Middle Ages, punctuation was limited to a system of dots at different levels. Recognizing the limitations of this system, Alcuin created the punctus interrogativus or ‘point of interrogation’. This mark was a dot with a symbol resembling a tilde or ‘lightning flash’ above it, representing the rising tone of voice used when asking a question. This new punctuation mark spread rapidly from the court of Charlemagne to other centres of learning. However, its use still remained haphazard, and it was often interchanged with the exclamation mark, or omitted entirely. It wasn’t until the 17th century that the question mark gained the familiar form and rules of use that we know today, and not until the mid-19th century that it first began to be referred to as a ‘question mark’.
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