Korean slang profile
You know what he said to me?
You know what he said to me?
A call-and-response meme in which one person says an English line from a song and the other responds with a question.
A call-and-response meme in which one person says an English line from a song and the other responds with a question.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Jun 29, 2026
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
친구랑 You know what he said to me? 밈을 주고받았어.
A friend and I traded lines from the You know what he said to me? meme.
02Documented history
- June 2026Harper’s Bazaar Korea introduced the use of narration from Hearts2Hearts’ ‘RUDE!’ as a question-and-answer meme.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A 2026 Harper’s Bazaar Korea article identifies Stella’s spoken narration in Hearts2Hearts’ ‘RUDE!’ as the source. It explains that one person said the line and another asked a question in reply. The original recording and the first parody video were not directly compared.
Evidence for the origin explanationLow
The usage in the article was checked, but how the expression was created and the earliest original material could not be established.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 코르티스 'O크크'가 왜 유행했을까? 케이팝 밈 총정리 | 하퍼스 바자 코리아 (하퍼스 바자 코리아)Published Jun 29, 2026Original source checked Nov 12, 2026