We may never make love the genuine identities ofAnnoying Facebook GirlandGood Guy Greg , but we do live a trivial bit more about the people who inspired these memes .
1. College Freshman
As a first - semester freshman , Griffin Kiritsy fit in to do an interview forReader ’s Digest , stark with a photograph shoot on the UNH campus . “ No big deal , ” he said . “ I can pose for a few snapshots . ” The picture cease up in other articles ( mostly boring ) about fresher life and college funds . Then the Reddit community got their deal on the one that will everlastingly be know as College Freshman , the inept and poorly - inform young adult who is almost always kill while try new things . In a recentReddit chat , Kiritsy admits that many of the memes mimicked his first year of college , saying “ the laundry jokes , the bragging about parties I went to , and all of the give-up the ghost 1 happened to me . ” He also report that being a meme has n’t had any real negative event on his lifetime : “ I plan on being the College Freshman until … I die . ”
2. Suburban Mom
Carly Phillips is a love story novelist and mother of two ( and a few pets ) . In May 2011 , her author photo was appropriate for the Sheltering Suburban Mom serial publication … a fact she get word just recently , thanks to a Redditor who posted a link on herFacebook fan page . When someone explained to her that her paradigm was used to make jokes about nervy , hypocritical and sometimes racist mothers , Philips says her “ initial response was horror and fury and hurt . ” After she was told that the joke was n’t about her , but about overly protective moms who do n’t practice what they preach , Phillips said she mat up a spot better about the whole affair . “ I never want anyone who sees it to retrieve that I , the existent mommy / soul … believes any of that stuff , especially the disparaging , instigative , prepossess things in there . ” Especially since she ’s the ‘ coolheaded mom ’ who let her child watch R - rat movies and stay up too late .
3. Skeptical Baby
In November 2011 , Dave , Rhiannon and their boy Mason took a trip to the Museum of Natural Sciences , where they had some family photos get by photographer Jarod Knoten . They came out so well that Daveposted one to Reddit . Within hour , Dave ’s Logos Mason was the star of his very own meme . Skeptical Baby just ca n’t believe the things multitude with object permanence have to say about anything . The joke usually follows the “ You mean to tell me … ” format , but there are a few variations .
4. Sheltered College Freshman
Kerin Portillo is a manikin who lives in Bogota , Colombia . She was featured in a serial of iStockphoto images portraying students in a depository library . A craw of one of these original picture is the guide for Sheltered College Freshman , which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like .
Generally the legend are based on misunderstood slang and sexual insinuation , but at times they just reflect the surprise a shelter college freshman might have at finding out how liveliness actually works . A tabulator serial called Sheltered No More boast another dig of Portillo , this time seated at a bar in a cherry-red attire , which portray her as SCF ’s glacial opposite . From all we can tell , Portillo has been whole silent about her viral renown .
5. Scumbag Steve
No one has bosom memedom like Blake Boston . His mom took a picture of him outwear a pelt coat and brownish Red Sox chapeau when he was 16 and posted it to her MySpace varlet . A few years later , in January 2011 , the first Scumbag Steve series reached the front pageboy of Reddit . The images portrayed Boston as a generic scumbag who borrows thing permanently and goes out of his way to be a jerk . In that initial place , a commenter distinguish Boston and another verified that Boston was Weezy B from the rap group Beantown Mafia . Since then , Boston has mostly embraced his renown , givinginterviews , film avideo Q&A , sharing Scumbag infoon Twitter , and even reblogging his preferent Scumbag Steve imageson Tumblr . When involve whether he wants to do a reality show , Boston allege , “ Ha , ppl demand me that all the time military man . Idk tho . ”
6. Senior Freshman
Nola Ochs graduated from Fort Hays State University at the years of 95 , define a Guinness World Record and earning herself some coverage on most major sensitive sales outlet . She went on to earn a masters in Liberal Studies at the age of 98 , graduating alongside her own granddaughter . A video of Ochs in class ( captioned “ Raises hand / ‘ As a mother … ’ ” ) seem onQuickmemein July 2011 . Since then , the world ’s oldest college graduate has been Senior Freshman , an older woman who ’s eager to read but also intimately familiar with the last couple hundred years of story . ( Like College Freshman , she often dies while take part in course . ) To date , Ochs has not commented on her Internet stardom and she is ( credibly ) not on Twitter .
7. Success Kid
Little Sammy Griner was n’t yet a class former in August 2007 when his mother , lensman Laney Griner , snapped a delineation of him on the beach with a handful of sand . She title it “ Why I oughta … ” on Flickr , and by January 2008 the picture was making the round on MySpace with the caption I detest Sandcastles . It traveled all the way to aRussian Photoshop threadbefore find its way to Advice Animals as Success Kid in January 2011 . ( For Success Kid , everything goes well than expected . ) The range of Sammy is so pop that Virgin Media purchased right to use it on billboards in the UK , and accord to Laney Griner , Sammy will be featured on Vitamin Water bottleful later on this year . Here he is at age 5 :
8. Too Damn High
If your economic rent is too bloody gamey , Jimmy McMillan is your guy . Or he would be , if you were a voting resident of New York in 2010 , when McMillan was running for regulator . His visual aspect at the Gubernatorial Debate that yr was uploaded to YouTube , and that ’s when the innerwebz discovered Rent is Too Damn High , the name of McMillan ’s political company and meme , based on his oft - reprise catch phrase . Captions almost always follow the “ X is too all-fired high ! ” format , but variations featuring words which rhyme with “ high ” run to be popular , as well – “ The ending is too damn close , ” for exemplar .
Since becoming Reddit celebrated and bolstered by his presidential run ( currently still underway ! ) , McMillan has spent his timesinging with Occupy protesters , hanging outon campus , and being parodied onSaturday Night Live . Sometimes he remind people that split is too bloody gamy .
9. Hipster Barista
Dustin Mattson has place in both regional and national barista rivalry . He ’s also the expression of Hipster Barista , the haughty cognoscente of java and thing that are not yet cool . Because it comes at the expense of esteem for his career , Mattson is n’t on the dot excited about his underage net celebrity , as he reveals in aninterview with Eater.com : “ If anyone were to see me and my coworkers ' work in the café , they ’d see that it does n’t quite fit up to most of the jokes made against the ‘ Hipster Barista . ’ ”
