Nobody:
A meme setup implying that no one requested, expected, or prompted the behavior shown in the punchline.
“Nobody: absolutely nobody: my cat at 3 a.m.: starts sprinting through the hallway.”
The blank nobody line creates silence before showing someone doing something unprompted, excessive, or predictably strange.
The format became widespread on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and YouTube around 2018 and 2019.
absolutely nobody
An intensified extra line emphasizing no prompt.
not a single soul
A common alternative setup.
literally no one
Another variation stressing total silence.
Why is there nothing after nobody?
The blank space represents the absence of any prompt or request.
Is the format still grammatical without a colon?
The colon is part of the recognizable meme structure, though users sometimes omit it.