I felt a rude but genuine certainty that recording major incidents of this nature would work as a type of personal prophylaxis. The act of playing yourself can be loosely defined as working against your conscious intentions. A rapper boasts about his money to make himself seem richer, and then his fans see through it and abandon him, leaving him broke. In order to indulge it, he asked his wife for an open marriage; she subsequently got pregnant by someone else. In June, he wrote a personal essay about this journey on the Huffington Post, and then, after facing ridicule, he requested that the editors delete it. This story illustrates a crucial axiom of playing yourself in the age of the Internet: the act tends to beget more examples of the same.

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When you've finally mastered playing the piano piece called "Yourself" and DJ Khaled is impressed. When your name is "Congratulations" and DJ Khaled reminds you who you played last week, and their name was "Yourself". When you ask DJ Khaled which of his friends are coming over, and they're called "Congratulations", "You Played" and you're also invited. When you ask DJ Khaled what's a 15 letter word meaning "praise for an achievement or good wishes on a special occasion", then a 3 letter word "used to refer to any person in general", then a 6 letter word meaning "the past tense of play", then finally an 8 letter word meaning "used to refer to the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of the clause". When DJ Khaled tells someone called "congratulations" that they played someone called "yourself".

The catchphrase is commonly applied to images, videos, and other media in which the subject or original poster ends up as the butt of a joke. On September 23rd, , Complex uploaded a video in which Khaled shows off his sneaker closet. During the segment, Khaled says the phrase "Congratulations, you played yourself" shown below. The same day, Viner younglame created a video montage of DJ Khaled saying "Don't ever play yourself" and "Congratulations. You Played Yourself.