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Ain't Nobody Got Time for That

You might remember it as Sweet Brown interview, bronchitis ain't nobody got time for that

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2012·The social era·unexpected

A local news interview after an apartment fire that gave the language one of its most durable refusals.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Sweet Brown interview
Spread in
2012
Began as
A television broadcast
Where it started
broadcast
Format
Video
Era
The social era
Said by
Kimberly Wilkins, known as Sweet Brown
The scene
An interview on KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City, on 8 April 2012, after a fire in her apartment complex
What it said
“Ain’t nobody got time for that”
Used to say
Dismissing something as not worth the trouble
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Playable from the source

What this wasThe story

On 8 April 2012, Oklahoma City station KFOR-TV interviewed Kimberly Wilkins outside a burning apartment complex. She describes waking up, smelling smoke, running out — and then, on being asked about the smoke, delivers the line: I got bronchitis. Ain't nobody got time for that. The timing is perfect and entirely unrehearsed.

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.

Why it matteredWhat changed

A woman describing how she escaped a fire on local television gave the internet a phrase for dismissing anything at all. Her attempt to stop a song built on her words, by suing the shop that sold it, was dismissed.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    KFOR-TV broadcasts its interview with Kimberly Wilkins, who had escaped the fire and been left with bronchitis by the smoke.1

  2. Mainstream

    She appears in the film A Madea Christmas, repeating part of the line.1

  3. Later

    Wilkins sues Apple for fifteen million US dollars over a song sold on iTunes that used her words. The case is later dismissed.1

  4. Remixed

    Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcasts a spoof film trailer with Queen Latifah playing her.1

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered asHer name is Sweet Brown.

ActuallyHer name is Kimberly Wilkins. Sweet Brown is a nickname.1

More from hereIn this collection

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast. The version shown here is the broadcaster's own copy on YouTube.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.

View the broadcaster's copy on YouTube

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.

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More from 2012You were there

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Sweet Brown

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