The 'This Nigga Eating Beans' meme stems from a viral 2017 tweet describing a fictional or highly exaggerated incident during a screening of Cars 2. According to the story, an individual was eating baked beans in the theater when they accidentally spilled them on themselves, prompting a teenager to shout the iconic phrase, leading to the entire audience's laughter. The story quickly became a popular copypasta across Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan. It is frequently used to mock absurdly specific social failures or paired with images of beans in unexpected places. The meme captures a specific brand of chaotic, surreal internet humor centered around public embarrassment and oddly specific snack choices.