In a social media publish, Betty White as soon as stated: “I’m one unhealthy a** b****.”
For years, web customers have shared a meme that incorporates an alleged screenshot of beloved late actor Betty White describing herself as a “unhealthy a** b****” in a social media publish.
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The alleged publish seen within the screenshot learn:
What am i able to say? I’m one unhealthy a** b****.
The purported quote has generally circulated by itself, as in a December 2021 Instagram post (archived), in addition to within the type of stickers (archived) and mugs (archived) bought on Etsy.
Nonetheless, it has most incessantly appeared as a part of a meme that has appeared since October 2020 in quite a few posts on social media platforms including X (archived) and Facebook (archived), in addition to in multiple (archived) Reddit posts (archived) on subreddits together with r/MadeMeSmile (archived).
The meme consisted of what seemed to be a collage of screenshots of two completely different social media posts.
The primary screenshot, which crammed the higher portion of the meme picture, described White advocating for Arthur Duncan, a Black faucet dancer, in 1954. That story was true, as Snopes confirmed in 2021.
An attribution seen within the backside proper nook of the photograph collage of Duncan and White that crammed the center of the meme picture recognized this particular telling of the story as originating from UberFacts, a trivia account that on the time of this writing had greater than 13 million followers on X. An UberFacts attribution additionally appeared on the high of some — however not all — variations of the meme, such because the one shared in an August 2021 X post (archived).
Though Snopes was unable to search out any UberFacts publish that includes each the precise wording and the photographs of Duncan and White that seem within the meme, the account has posted (archived) a virtually identically phrased model of the story on X a number of times since 2019.
The second screenshot confirmed the alleged White publish beneath investigation right here. In contrast to the story about White sticking up for Duncan, the publish attributed to White was faux.
One piece of proof that the publish didn’t originate from the true Betty White was the username seen within the screenshot of the publish, @BetttWhite. Though the “Golden Women” actor was lively on X, her deal with was @BettyMWhite, as media shops together with E! Online and the Los Angeles Times reported when she opened the account in 2012.
White’s property closed that account after the actor died in December 2021, and one other person snapped up the deal with. In consequence, none of White’s posts appeared on the account’s page (archived) on the time of this writing. Nonetheless, White’s posts courting again to 2012 have been preserved through the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine. In none of these preserved posts did White describe herself as a “unhealthy a** b****.”
The @BetttWhite account, in contrast, did not exist on X on the time of this writing, and there was no proof White had ever been related to that deal with.
A second clue that the publish attributed to White was faux was a faint watermark seen over the publish’s opening phrases, which we have now surrounded in a purple field within the under picture. That watermark learn: “@therecoveringproblemchild” — the deal with of a well-liked meme account on Instagram.
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The earliest publish out there on that account’s web page on the time of this writing was dated Oct. 3, 2021, roughly a 12 months after the meme that includes the purported White publish first appeared on-line in October 2020, in response to the results of a reverse image search on TinEye.com.
Snopes reached out to Sam Grannis, the proprietor of the @therecoveringproblemchild account, who confirmed over electronic mail that he created the meme, together with the screenshot of the @BetttWhite publish, which he described as “faux.”
As a result of the creator of the meme stated he made the quote up and fabricated the screenshot of the @BetttWhite publish, we have now rated this quote as faux, which means the screenshot purportedly displaying it was manipulated or manufactured utilizing digital modifying software program.
Snopes has beforehand fact-checked numerous claims about White, together with a rumor that, three days earlier than her loss of life, she stated: “Eat wholesome and get all of your vaccines. I simply acquired boosted as we speak.”
