Annoying Facebook Girl

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Annoying Facebook Girl is a 2010 advice animal image macro featuring a teenage girl rolling her eyes against a blue-and-white color wheel background, with captions parodying vapid Facebook status updates. The template surfaced on 4chan in June 2010 and moved through BuzzFeed, Reddit and a 32,000-submission Quickmeme page, with a December 2011 hoax thread on r/funny briefly pushing it back into the news.

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Overview

Annoying Facebook Girl is an advice animal image macro built around a photo of a teenage girl mid-eye-roll, mouth open, set against the blue-and-white color wheel background common to the advice animal template3. The overlaid text ventriloquizes the sort of Facebook activity that irritates everyone else on the feed, from attention-seeking status updates to endless selfies captioned "I look so ugly in this one" and manufactured drama2.

The character catalogues very specific behaviors: marrying a best friend on Facebook for the drama, hashtagging everything, posting bikini pictures with the face cropped out, and entering "most beautiful teen" comment competitions2.

How It Spread

BuzzFeed ran a derivatives compilation four days after the 4chan post, on June 21st, 2010, and Urlesque followed a week later with a "New Meme Alert" writeup linking to the Memegenerator page. A Quickmeme page opened in February 2011 was sitting on more than 32,000 submissions by May 2012, and a Facebook fan page had gathered 13,459 likes by the same date3.

The template caught a second wind on December 20th, 2011, when Redditor boyann posted screenshots to r/funny claiming he was chatting on Facebook with a friend of the girl in the photo, offering to break the news that she had accidentally become a meme. The Daily Dot published a same-day writeup on the exchange, with commenters worrying the subject might be hurt by discovering herself as an internet character. Within hours another Redditor spotted that Megan's photos had been uploaded only a week earlier and Jess's Facebook account was less than a month old, and the whole thing was flagged as a hoax1.

How to Use This Meme

Building an Annoying Facebook Girl macro follows the standard advice animal template: setup text on top, punchline underneath, the eye-roll photo dead center. The punchline typically ventriloquizes one of the character's recognized moves, whether that's duckfaces, hashtag abuse on early Facebook, or vaguebooking about "how upset I am right now"2.

Frequently Asked Questions

Annoying Facebook Girl

2010image macroclassic

Annoying Facebook Girl is a 2010 advice animal image macro featuring a teenage girl rolling her eyes against a blue-and-white color wheel background, with captions parodying vapid Facebook status updates. The template surfaced on 4chan in June 2010 and moved through BuzzFeed, Reddit and a 32,000-submission Quickmeme page, with a December 2011 hoax thread on r/funny briefly pushing it back into the news.

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Overview

Annoying Facebook Girl is an advice animal image macro built around a photo of a teenage girl mid-eye-roll, mouth open, set against the blue-and-white color wheel background common to the advice animal template3. The overlaid text ventriloquizes the sort of Facebook activity that irritates everyone else on the feed, from attention-seeking status updates to endless selfies captioned "I look so ugly in this one" and manufactured drama2.

The character catalogues very specific behaviors: marrying a best friend on Facebook for the drama, hashtagging everything, posting bikini pictures with the face cropped out, and entering "most beautiful teen" comment competitions2.

How It Spread

BuzzFeed ran a derivatives compilation four days after the 4chan post, on June 21st, 2010, and Urlesque followed a week later with a "New Meme Alert" writeup linking to the Memegenerator page. A Quickmeme page opened in February 2011 was sitting on more than 32,000 submissions by May 2012, and a Facebook fan page had gathered 13,459 likes by the same date3.

The template caught a second wind on December 20th, 2011, when Redditor boyann posted screenshots to r/funny claiming he was chatting on Facebook with a friend of the girl in the photo, offering to break the news that she had accidentally become a meme. The Daily Dot published a same-day writeup on the exchange, with commenters worrying the subject might be hurt by discovering herself as an internet character. Within hours another Redditor spotted that Megan's photos had been uploaded only a week earlier and Jess's Facebook account was less than a month old, and the whole thing was flagged as a hoax1.

How to Use This Meme

Building an Annoying Facebook Girl macro follows the standard advice animal template: setup text on top, punchline underneath, the eye-roll photo dead center. The punchline typically ventriloquizes one of the character's recognized moves, whether that's duckfaces, hashtag abuse on early Facebook, or vaguebooking about "how upset I am right now"2.

Frequently Asked Questions