This study examines online metalinguistic commentary related to an Internet meme (i.e. ‘Cash me ousside/howbow dah’), in order to explore Internet users’ language ideologies. The meme, and its related YouTube metacommentary, places at its center a ‘non‐standard’ utterance produced by a young teenage girl on a U.S. television talk show, which went viral. Drawing on citizen sociolinguistics – a means to explore how everyday citizens make sense of the… |