The Hunter Pence Signs meme began during the 2014 MLB season when New York Mets fans started holding up signs with incredibly mild, non-offensive observations about the then-San Francisco Giants outfielder. Instead of traditional aggressive heckling, signs claimed things like 'Hunter Pence returns his library books on time' or 'Hunter Pence prefers New York style pizza.' This subversion of sports trash-talk quickly went viral, spreading to other stadiums and becoming a beloved internet trope. The meme is typically used to highlight harmlessly eccentric behavior or to mock someone with 'insults' that are actually polite, helpful, or just weirdly specific.