What Does This Mean?
A public apology typed in a phone's Notes app, screenshotted and posted as an image, popular with celebrities and influencers and also used as a parody format.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He posted a Notes app apology instead of just saying it on camera."
LORE & ORIGIN
Know Your Meme dates the practice to at least 2015, citing Ariana Grande (July 2015) and Amy Schumer (June 2015), with Logan Paul's January 2018 apology among the best-known examples. Journalist Jason Snell noted in 2016 that people used Notes screenshots to get around Twitter's character limit; the look later became a standard format for public statements and for joke apologies.
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