Was Pops Wrong For This? / JaMar Pittman

Was Pops Wrong For This?refers to aviral videoof a CNN interview with the Pittman family in which the father,Ja Mar Pittman, also known as Pastor Ja Mar D. Pittman, appeared to be holding back laughter and then failing, laughing into his shirt, despite being in a serious situation with the CNN headline reading, 15-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT CHARGED AS AN ADULT WITH TERRORISM, FIRST-DEGREE MURDER." The interview took place shortly after the 2021 shooting of Oxford High School in Michigan, where the son, Je Von Pittman, was a student. Another part of the video included Pittman pointing with his thumb over to his son when crying about a lost classmate. The video of Pittman became areactionvideo and GIFon Twitter / Xand elsewhere going into the 2020s, used to portray holding back laughter. An Instagram Rap TV-likeinfographic that asked the question, "Was Pops Wrong For This?" went viral in 2023, spawning the nickname "Pops" for Ja Mar Pittman. In 2024,internetusers discovered Pittman's You Tube