
The aforementioned meme was reposted by multiple Instagram accounts going into the days following. On August 1st, 2022, Instagram user willawanna reposted "the Bronze Jade" meme, receiving roughly 3,100 likes in three weeks. This is the first-known, viral posting of the image other than a tweet from Twitter user notibussy that was uploaded roughly three hours prior and received three likes.

Over the course of three weeks, the post received roughly 9,100 likes (shown below). On July 31st, 2022, Twitter user SouljaBoymoder tweeted a screenshot that circled the words "the Bronze Jade" and pointed to a red circled image of NBA player LeBron James in his Lakers uniform. The meme started on Twitter in mid-2022 and then quickly spread to Instagram and Reddit. It also builds on the similar Red Circle Perpetrators trend.


The screenshots are layered with red circles, arrows and lines that zoom in to a picture of James, or whomever the corresponding celebrity is. Name Soundalikes, also known as Name Lookalikes or LeBron James Name Lookalikes, are words and phrases that sound like LeBron James' name, among other celebrities and characters such as Markiplier or MrBeast, found in Google searches and on Wikipedia pages (some examples being "the Bronze Jade," "the Bomb Bay" and "the Bron Jame"). Lebron james, the john jay, the bomb bay, wikipedia, google, basketball, the bronze jade, red circle, red arrow, arrow, circle, zoom-in, red circle perpetrators, instagram, doppelganger, word, lebron james lookalikes, words, names, lebron james meme About
