Unless youve been living under a rock with a potato for a phone for the past year, youll be more than familiar with the utter woke nonsense meme.
The said piece of internet tomfoolery features a close-up of new Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche against a brick wall and - sorry to be that person who explains the joke - is usually used as a sarcastic reaction to voice a minor complaint that rarely has anything to do with wokeness.
Used in the right way, its hilarious, but for Dyche himself, theres only one issue with it.
Dyche on the 'utter woke nonsense' meme
And that's the fact that the man himself - who this week took over at Nottingham Forest - never actually said it.
I get asked about this all the time, Dyche tells FourFourTwo. I wish Id copyrighted it.
Considering I didnt actually say it, it does follow me around.
Id done an interview with Matthew Syed from The Times and we went into a deep conversation about how perception is more important than the truth. Heavy stuff.
We had discussed how coaching methods were affected by concerns for peoples feelings and the paper ran a photo of me outside a hotel.
"From that a meme was created saying Utter woke nonsense. It went viral."
And go viral it did, as the point that the gravel-voiced Dyche was trying to make over perception versus truth was underlined as the 54-year-old with plenty of progressive views was pictured as the ultimate old-school football man with a detest for the modern game.
However, the man himself did lean into it during his time between jobs before he accepted the call from Forest
"Ive really been enjoying my media work, Ive done plenty of that," he continues. Myself and my good pal Jonny Owen have done a show and a podcast its called Utter Nonsense!, of course for Talksport, which Ive really enjoyed.
"I like showing a bit more of me, rather than the perceptions people have of me as a manager. I like having a laugh, showing my character and getting the feedback from people saying they didnt know I was like that."
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