you get 74 on exam? / 26 more reasons to be disappointed
A High Expectations Asian Father post.
A photo of a middle-aged Asian man with gray hair and glasses, looking quietly unimpressed, on a green color wheel. The series started as a Tumblr blog by two friends, Chris and Bryant, on March 18, 2010, and reached the top of Meme Generator that July. He has never raised his voice. He has never needed to. The face does all the work. Captions take an achievement and find the flaw. "You got an A?" / "Why not A+?" "Got into Harvard" / "should've got into Harvard earlier." "You finished your homework?" / "Now do next year's." And the classic: "B is for Bad." The jokes play on a stereotype about first-generation parents, and plenty of people who share it say it's less a joke and more a transcript. The man in the photo is just someone's dad with a serious expression; the impossible standards came from the internet. A Tiger Mom counterpart followed in 2011. **Why it caught on:** almost everyone had a parent who answered good news with "and?" - it just put a face to it.