The Origins Of Jokowi's "YNTKTS" Legendary Speech Until It Was Popularly Turned Into A Meme

YNTKTS memes (Source: Facebook/knowyourmemeID)

JAKARTA - Not long ago a video of the appearance of the words "YNTKTS" on a display board for Public Fuel Filling Stations (SPBU) in Bogor went viral. The acronym of "ya don't know why you ask me" was first popularized by President Joko Widodo. The question is, when was the first time Jokowi made this phenomenal expression to become a meme like it is today?

One of those who spread the video was the owner of the Twitter account @IbnuTasrip. The Corporate Secretary of PT Pertamina, Patra Niaga said the running text that read "YNTKTS" was the work of hackers. "The running text board was hacked," Putut told Kompas.

The gas station, Putut said, is located on Mayor Oking street, Cibinong, Bogor. And the writing on the running text board has now been fixed.

The term YNTKTS has long been a phenomenon on social media, especially Twitter. Not even a few netizens make memes.

The owner of the @lesserevile account, for example, put the term YNTKTS on a t-shirt. The account created a meme that said "the reason I'm embarrassed to go to your parents' house" and put a picture of a "YNTKTS" t-shirt in the meme.

pic.twitter.com/PpBDPwX6uw

— elektropuan (@lesserevile) June 14, 2021

In addition, on Facebook, YNTKTS memes are also scattered. There is even one upload that adds another term that came out of President Soeharto's mouth, namely "KKTBSYS". It is short for "why do you ask that, who told you to." The same video has gone viral when a small child asked the New Order rulers about why there was only one president in Indonesia.

The origin of YNTKTS

According to the popular understanding in Urban Dictionary, YNTKTS is an abbreviation of the legendary sentence spoken by Jokowi. Meaning: 'I don't know, why are you asking me'. Then when did Jokowi first utter this sentence?

According to VOI's search, Jokowi's expression was uttered when he was still the Governor of DKI Jakarta, more precisely in September 2013. As quoted by detik, the video was recorded when Jokowi was attacked by questions from journalists. At that time, Jokowi was said to have had a new move to avoid being attacked by journalists by pretending to trick the press.

"Yeah, I don't know, why are you asking me. Wait a minute, my items," said Jokowi as he ran into the building.

*Read information about VIRAL or other interesting articles from Ramdan Febrian.

Other SOLID NEWS