# Miss Teen USA South Carolina Miss Teen USA South Carolina refers to Lauren Caitlin Upton's rambling August 2007 pageant answer about American geography, uploaded to YouTube by user IRamzayI minutes after the closing ceremony[1]. The 48-second clip crossed 10 million views within its first weeks and finished as YouTube's most watched clip for September 2007[4]. ## Origin The Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant was held August 24, 2007 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and broadcast live on NBC to roughly 4.3 million viewers[4]. During the Q&A round, Friday Night Lights actress Aimee Teegarden asked Upton why about one-fifth of young Americans could not locate the United States on a world map[1]. Upton, representing South Carolina, delivered a 45-second reply that jumped between 'the Iraq,' 'South Africa' and 'our education like such as' before trailing off[1]. - **Platform:** NBC broadcast / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** Lauren Caitlin Upton - **Date:** 2007 ## Overview The video shows Upton stringing together fragments like 'I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps'[1]. Viewers zeroed in on filler tics such as 'such as' and 'like,' and the answer set off a wave of parodies and reaction uploads[2]. The tone of the meme swings between sympathy and secondhand cringe, with fans arguing whether Upton froze under pressure or genuinely lost her train of thought. Editors tended to loop the 'such as' phrasing or subtitle the answer word for word so viewers could follow her sentence structure[3]. The clip is often grouped with other early YouTube gaffes as one of the first cases of a live network TV moment being mirrored and remixed by anonymous uploaders within hours of airing[4]. ## How It Spread Within hours of the closing ceremony, YouTube user IRamzayI uploaded the taped segment to the platform[1]. It cleared 10 million views in its first weeks and by August 2011 had accumulated close to 500 video responses on YouTube[2]. Facebook shares drove much of the early traffic, and the upload stayed the site's most watched clip for the month of September 2007. Upton did the media rounds almost immediately. On August 28, 2007 she went on NBC's Today Show, where host Ann Curry gave her a second try at the same question and she answered cleanly[3]. She then performed a self-parody at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards and appeared as herself in Weezer's May 2008 music video 'Pork and Beans,' blending an atlas in a Blendtec as part of the clip's YouTube in-jokes[5]. Her run of self-referential cameos ran into 2009 with a 'Get Crackin' spot for Wonderful Pistachios, where she wore a sash reading 'Miss Wonderful' and delivered a joke about 'Americans who don't have maps'[6]. That same year she filmed a Web Redemption segment on Comedy Central's Tosh.0, which locked in the clip's status as a reference point for on-air fumbles[3]. ## How to Use People typically quote lines from Upton's answer, especially the 'such as' filler and the 'Americans who don't have maps' phrasing, whenever a public figure fumbles a live TV question. Common convention is to share the raw clip or a subtitled edit rather than remixing the visuals themselves. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Miss Teen USA South Carolina? It refers to a viral YouTube video of Lauren Caitlin Upton, the 2007 Miss South Carolina Teen USA contestant, giving a rambling answer during the pageant's Q&A round[1]. ### Where did Miss Teen USA South Carolina come from? The clip is from the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant, held August 24, 2007 in Pasadena, California, and uploaded to YouTube by user IRamzayI the same night[1]. ### What does Miss Teen USA South Carolina mean? It refers to Upton's 45-second answer that jumped between 'the Iraq,' 'South Africa' and 'our education like such as' before trailing off, which viewers replayed for its confused grammar[1]. ### How do you use Miss Teen USA South Carolina? People quote lines from the answer or share the clip to react to any public gaffe or fumbled speech, especially the phrase about Americans who don't have maps[2]. ### Is Miss Teen USA South Carolina still popular? The original YouTube upload accumulated over 51 million views and around 500 video responses within its first four years, keeping it a common reference for pageant gaffes[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhVGDy-ZXc]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAJUMYGgfZA]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQKNvPn3V-8]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miss-south-carolina-teen-usa]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHPYelqr0E]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/miss-teen-usa-south-carolina Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library