[MEME ORIGIN] First Time? Meme | James Franco

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James Franco "First time?" refers to a memorable quote by an unnamed cowboy character on the gallows in the 2018 western film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, as portrayed by American actor James Franco. Since the film's release in November 2018, a screen-captured image of the scene has been used in image macros as the punchline to jokes about one's inexperience.

Origin

On September 12th, 2018, Netflix uploaded a trailer for the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs to YouTube. At the end of the trailer, there is a clip of the James Franco asking a crying man on the gallows, "First time?" The post received more than 1.7 million views in less than three months.

Two months later, on November 25th, Twitter user @Ayub_dz posted a screen shot of the moment with the caption, "When you're hiding from a school shooter and the foreign exchange student starts crying." The tweet received more than 37,000 retweets and 131,000 likes in five days.