The 'Well Yes, But Actually No' meme features a character often identified as Lord Nelson from the 2012 stop-motion short film 'So You Want to Be a Pirate!', a companion piece to 'The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!'. In the original scene, the character actually says 'Well yes, but no,' but the internet adapted the phrase into the more emphatic 'Well yes, but actually no' to emphasize a contradictory truth. It is widely used to illustrate scenarios where a statement is technically correct on the surface but fundamentally incorrect or misleading in practice. Since its rise to popularity on Reddit and Twitter in early 2019, it has become the go-to template for highlighting technicalities, paradoxes, and awkward admissions of truth.