The meme stems from NSYNC's 2000 smash hit "It's Gonna Be Me." When singing the titular line in the song, Timberlake annunciates the word "me" as "May." According to a 2016 article from E!

The First Time meme hails from a 2018 movie from the celebrated Coen Brothers, ... I’m gonna pause.’ [It] did not seem like the right time to say anything.

Taking it all in. Angela Bassett reached out to Ariana DeBose after the West Side Story star’s BAFTAs rap went viral. “I DM’d her last night. I did. It was beautiful,” Bassett, 64, told ...