Drake Hotline Bling

Drake Hotline Bling, often called Drakeposting, is the two-panel preference template in which Drake rejects the upper option and approves the lower one. The simple gesture supplies the grammar: no first, yes second.

Its images come from Drake's 2015 ‘Hotline Bling’ music video. After the video arrived in October, isolated reaction uses of the dismissive pose appeared on 4chan; the earliest known example is from October 31, 2015.

Image text: the upper panel means ‘no’; the lower panel means ‘yes’.

This first seen date belongs to the meme use, not to the song's release. By separating the two gestures into a stacked layout, posters made the original dance move into a reusable visual sentence.

Dance remixes spread immediately after the video release, but the preference template expanded through 2016 across imageboards, forums, Reddit, and social networks. It became useful for real preferences, bad habits, petty opinions, and self-deprecating choices.

The blank format invited face swaps and character edits. Cat Drake became a notable later branch: users put a cat's face on Drake and contrasted a cat bed with the cardboard box a cat might prefer.

Image text: the upper panel means ‘no’; the lower panel means ‘yes’.

The template has survived because its order is obvious even without the original clip. Labels can be brief, and the joke can be sincere or ironic without changing the visual logic.