Skin Coloured Pencil Reaction

Text on the meme

Me when my black classmate asks me to give him the skin coloured pencil

What it means

Patrick Bateman stares blankly at the camera in a formal suit. The joke plays on the outdated idea that one pencil colour represents “skin colour,” creating an awkward reaction to a Black classmate asking for it. It is used as a deadpan reaction to uncomfortable or unintentionally insensitive situations.

Who

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Objects

man in suit / мужчина в костюме slicked-back hair / зачёсанные назад волосы white shirt / белая рубашка striped shirt collar / полосатый воротник рубашки tie / галстук wood-paneled room / комната с деревянными панелями serious expression / серьёзное выражение лица direct stare / прямой взгляд close-up portrait / портрет крупным планом classroom joke / шутка про одноклассника skin-coloured pencil / карандаш телесного цвета