2012·The social era·unexpected
Ain't Nobody Got Time for That
A local news interview after an apartment fire that gave the language one of its most durable refusals.
You might remember it as Sweet Brown interview, bronchitis ain't nobody got time for that
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What this was
It first appeared in 2012, during the social era.
It is one of a small handful of local news interviews to become national language, and the second of two from the same era — Antoine Dodson's had come two years earlier — which together established the local-news-interview-as-meme as a recognised form. The phrase is now used by people with no idea it came from a fire in Oklahoma.
Wilkins, as Sweet Brown, appeared on national television, took a cameo in a Tyler Perry film delivering the line, and became the subject of an autotune remix in the pattern the Bed Intruder Song had set. It also renewed an uncomfortable argument, still unresolved, about which people get turned into memes by American local news and why.
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