About
Daquan is a fictional character featured in jokes circulated primarily by the Black Twitter community, which are paired with stock photographs of young white children being scolded by an adult. The character is typically portrayed as an African American inner city youth who serves as a bad influence to impressionable young white women.
Origin
On July 2nd, 2014, Twitter user @RealRaymondJ[7] posted a tweet featuring a stock photograph of a young girl making a dismissive hand gesture to her mother with the caption “Mom I don’t want a David, I want a Daquan” (shown below). In the first week, the tweet gained over 14,500 retweets and 11,000 favorites.
Spread
On July 7th, 2014, the @YahBoyDaquan[2] Twitter feed was launched, gathering more than 45,000 followers in the next 24 hours.
The same day, Redditor Loelin submitted a post to the /r/OutOfTheLoop[1] subreddit asking for an explanation of the Daquan jokes. Also on July 7th, notable examples from the series were highlighted on the hip hop news site Hip Hop Wired[5] and the Internet news blog UpRoxx.[3] Meanwhile, a Daquan post was submitted to the Twitter trends site What the Trend.[4] On July 8th, the International Business Times[6] reported that the keyword “Daquan” had been tweeted over 100,000 times in 24 hours.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Reddit – What is this thing dealing with Daquan
[2]Twitter = @YahBoyDaquan
[3]UpRoxx – Daquan Memes
[4]What the Trend – Who is Daquan
[5]Hip Hop Wired – Fictional Character Daquan Fuels Racially Charged Memes
[6]International Business Times – Daquan vs Dequan
[7]Twitter – @RealRaymondJ