Assignment 5
Lazy College Senior Meme
The lazy college senior meme first appeared online November 7th
2011. The meme is a stock photo of a young man drinking a pint of beer. The man
looks tired and his hair is scruffy. The identity of the man in the picture is
currently unidentified.
The first post of this meme was on the web page: www.reddit.com.
It was posted by the reddit user called: Ikfotsur. Only days later it had also
been posted on pages such as: www.cheezburger.com/
, www.thebigster.com and www.tumblr.com/. Why it suddenly became so popular is hard to say. It
is a funny picture which is easy to repost. A large part of the success comes
from reddit.com where people can like and upvote posts. People might also
recognize the behaviour this meme describes, thus contributing to its
popularity.
The first lazy college senior post looked like this:
Lazy college senior is the opposite of the meme «College Freshman»
which surfaced online on the 27th of July 2011, but lazy college
senior does not seem to have emerged from college freshman.
A meme that has emerged from lazy
college senior is «Lazy Elementary School Kid». This meme is basicly the same
thing only starring a kid drinking soda instead of a man drinking beer.
The lazy college senior meme today, has a facebook page with 1500
likes. It has more than 1400 related threads on reddit.com, and over 23000
submissions on the page: www.quickmeme.com. It peaked in popularity in February 2012 according to google trends
2004 – present.
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