Within three days, Walker accumulated over 7, new Twitter followers and 16, likes on Facebook. Laina has denied that Walker is her last name. Spin-off attempts at creating a male counterpart character began on June 7th, the day after the upload of the "Girlfriend" fan video, with a Reddit post titled "Overly Attached Boyfriend" featuring a photo of a man staring creepily at the camera. One of the top voted comments was submitted by Redditor HertzaHaeon, which linked to a photoshopped "couple shot" image and an "obligatory" faceswap image featuring Laina and her male doppleganger.
Later that same day, the Internet news site Daily Dot [20] posted an article titled "Meet the Overly Attached Boyfriend Meme," detailing the development of the meme in a chronological order. On July 7th, a single topic blog titled Overly Attached Boyfriend [25] was launched by Internet humor network Memesly and numerous image macros from the original Reddit thread were featured by BuzzFeed [23] and FunnyJunk.
In the interview, the high school senior student from Arizona revealed that he decided to submit the post onto Reddit "after a little confidence boost from a friend. Within two days, the post received over 6, up votes and comments. That day, 17 other "Misunderstood Girlfriend" image macros were submitted to the subreddit [28] , four of which received enough up votes to reach the front page.
On September 5th, the Tumblr [30] blog Pleated Jeans highlighted several notable examples in a post that received over 6, notes within 24 hours. The same day, additional compilations were reblogged on the Internet humor site Joes Daily [32] and the tech news blog Mashable. The series bears many thematic similarities with the Good Girl Gina advice animal character, which features a stock photograph of a young brunette woman with captions depicting her as an altruistic mate.
Within 24 hours, the post received over 5, up votes. Within the first week of upload, the YouTube clip accumulated more than 6. The antithetical character of Overly Attached Girlfriend has been brought up as early as July 4th, with a Reddit post [35] renaming Scumbag Steve 's female counterpart Scumbag Stacy as the "Underly Attached Girlfriend. However, the "Underly Attached Girlfriend" spin-off series didn't take off until months later on September 29th, when Redditor anrennt98 submitted an image of American actress and Twilight cast member Kristen Stewart captioned with "You're cheating?
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Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution. Read Edit History. About Overly Attached Girlfriend is an advice animal image macro featuring webcam picture of vlogger Laina Morris and various captions portraying her in the stereotype of an overprotective and clingy girlfriend. Origin On June 6th, , YouTuber wzr uploaded a webcam video titled "JB Fanvideo" [1] in which she performs a parody rendition of Justin Bieber's latest single "Boyfriend" with personalized lyrics.
She uploaded one video in August , and on Thursday she posted her final video. Read more: The 'overly attached girlfriend' explains what it's like being a wildly popular internet meme. In her minute farewell, Morris said she'd been struggling with anxiety and depression and had seen a psychologist and taken medication to help her mental health. She said that seeing others in the media talking about mental health, specifically the actress Kristen Bell, helped her to accept herself.
But when you're feeling good, it can be really scary because you don't know how long that feeling will last. When you start to feel bad again, it can be scary because you thought you had gotten over it. Like, I get it. I know how hard it is. Morris also encouraged anyone struggling with mental-health issues like anxiety or depression to reach out for help and to find acceptance through the process because "at the end of the day, you are alone with you and your own thoughts, and you need to love yourself.
For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. Fast forward a few hours and her video had a million views. But, alas, this was not the end of it. The next day a Redditor, who goes by the name of yeahhtoast took it upon himself to screen shot the video, photoshop in some white text words, and from there on in, Overly Attached Girlfriend was brought forth to the world.
While the meme fast gained cult status in the playground of the world wide web, the small-town Texan native was forced to pick up the pieces. Morris quickly became the subject of intense scrutiny, with people doing all they could to track her down. But this didn't stop Morris deciding to forge a YouTube career on the back of her meme status and becoming a YouTuber. Interestingly and probably unsurprisingly, she struggled to deal with her newly cultivated internet persona.
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