What Does City Boy Mean?

The slang term "city boy" was defined on Urban Dictionary[1] on July 15th, 2019. The top-voted definition reads, "A male who is living his very best life and chasing the bag at all times without letting Hot Girls or any female get in the way.""**

City Boy Meme Origin

Gravity Falls

On June 30th, 2012, season one episode three of Gravity Falls, "Headhunters," aired on the Disney Channel.one point in the episode, Deputy Durland mocks the idea of Dipper, a literal city boy, being able to solve a crime. He yells, "City boy! City boy!" toward Dipper.

The clip was uploaded to YouTube on July 12th, 2016, gaining over 147,000 views in six years (shown below).

About

City Boy! City Boy! refers to a scene from the animated TV show Gravity Fallsin which the character Deputy Durland mockingly yells, "City boy! City boy!" at Dipper, mocking him. The scene comes from a 2012 episode of the show and went viral as a [reactionmeme on TikTok in 2022 as a reference to the [AAVE] [slang] term [city boy, meaning a man who doesn't let women get in the way of his success.

In January 2026, the meme saw a notable resurgence after a series of posts on TikTok caused the format to again garner virality online.