Emily BLM ACAB Is Typing

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Urban Dictionary

On June 25th, 2020, Urban Dictionary user emily clzo posted a definition for the term “ACAB,” defining it as, “acab means all cops are bastards. the terms originally a gang slogan. acab DOES NOT MEAN ALL COPS ARE BAD, it’s means (to sum it all up) the cop system sucks. 😌” The post gained overwhelmingly negative reception. On August 7th, Urban Dictionary user Jentriliquis posted another definition for ACAB, writing, “This means all cops are bad. People that use this are usually named Emily” seemingly in direct response to emily clzo (shown below, left and right).

On October 27th, YouTuber Neddyfram uploaded a video titled “emily✨♋🏳️‍🌈✊🏿 ACAB/BLM is typing…” showing this interaction in a stylized way, garnering over 2,000 views in eight months (shown below).

Emily Is Typing…

Over the course of 2020 leading into 2021, the variable sentence fragment “Emily Is Typing…”, mimicking the phrasing of a message you might see as someone is writing a comment or DM, often expanded with a number of emojis and terms stereotypically attributed to young liberal girls (i.e. ACAB, BLM, star signs, pronoun preferences, etc.), started growing in popularity as a way to label content or posters as “Emilys.”

For example, on July 24th, 2020, Instagram user @icyboner posted a video in which an Asian woman reacts to and gets offended by a Filthy Frank video, captioned, “🧚‍♂️Emily✨ACAB🚫👮‍♀️BLM✊🏾 is typing…” implying the content shown might attract the ire of Emilys (shown below). The video garnered over 3,900 views in nine months.

On October 11th and 14th, TikToker @joe_mama740 posted two Turtle Song Persian Language videos with on-screen text referring to “Emily ACAB BLM,” garnering over 9,500 and 241,000 views respectively in six months (shown below, left and right).

On January 15th, TikToker @reidbotsko posted a comedy skit in which someone who is about to be canceled by an “Emily” tricks her into saying the n-word, thus canceling herself, garnering over 950,000 views in three months (shown below).

On February 3rd, Twitter page @AllBigMistakes posted a For Really Big Mistakes meme saying Communism was a mistake, garnering over 4,900 likes in two months. A minute later, they commented on their own post with an image of someone in a Communist shirt typing on their phone captioned, “*Emily ☭ 14 acab 1312 blm she/her is typing on your Communist Meme*” as if expecting criticism, garnering over 1,200 likes and 100 retweets in the same span of time (shown below).