The Well Yes, But Actually No meme features the Pirate Captain from the 2012 stop-motion animated film The Pirates! Band of Misfits. While the character originally says 'Well, yes, but no' in response to a question about his scientific credentials, the internet added the word 'actually' to make the phrasing more emphatic. It first gained massive popularity on Reddit in early 2019. The meme is used to explain complex situations where an answer is technically true but practically incorrect or misleading, perfectly capturing the essence of technicalities and humorous contradictions.