You Are Now Green

Text on the meme

You are no longer black, or brown, or yellow or red! jarhead You are now green! You are light green or dark green! Do you understand? Sir, yes, sir! Swofford!

What it means

A military instructor in a camouflage uniform orders a recruit to stop identifying by racial colors and become green, while the recruit answers obediently. The recruit’s face changes from black to red to bright green, then the clip cuts to rows of soldiers with green heads and ends with the instructor calling “Swofford!” The absurd color transformation and serious drill-sergeant delivery parody the film Jarhead and make the clip useful as a reaction to forced conformity or bizarre orders.

Speech

You are no longer black or brown or yellow or red. You are now green. You are light green or dark green. Do you understand? Sir, yes sir!

Sound

male speech, man speaking

Who

Swofford (Jarhead)

Objects

military instructor / военный инструктор recruit / новобранец soldiers / солдаты camouflage uniform / камуфляжная форма drill instructor hat / шляпа инструктора military corridor / военный коридор rows of soldiers / ряды солдат green faces / зелёные лица black face silhouette / чёрный силуэт лица red face / красное лицо bright green face / ярко-зелёное лицо serious expression / серьёзное выражение лица military formation / военный строй