Lets Get This Bread Meme and Origin, Explained [Video]

Life is all about the hustle. We hustle at work, we hustle in side businesses, we hustle to build up our social media followers — in short, we hustle our buns off. Everyone can identify with waking up early, going to bed late, and hustling all day in between.

But what the heck does “Let’s get this bread” mean and where did the meme come from?

The “Let’s Get This Bread” meme first became very popular on Twitter. Employees who were feeling exhausted at work and questioning why they work so hard shared images of bagels, buns, and loaves of bread along with captions complaining about work or making fun of being tired, or encouraging everyone to work hard to “get this bread.”

“Getting bread” is slang for making money, so at the end of a hard work period when it’s payday, people like to post this meme in a …