Annoying Facebook Girl

About

Annoying Facebook Girl is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a teenage girl rolling her eyes with her mouth agape accompanied by a blue and white color wheel background. The overlaid text typically associates the girl with vapid status updates, attention whoring and generally irritating Facebook activity. (See also: Musically Oblivious 8th Grader, Social Networking Dolphin, and Duck Face)

Origin

The source of the original photo is currently unknown, but the earliest known image macro using the image was published on the Latvian blog Krabjiem^[13] on January 15th, 2011 in a post titled “Fun Photo.”

Spread

The first known Annoying Facebook Girl derivative with the color wheel background was posted in an archived 4chan thread titled “Facebook Whore Comics” on June 17th, 2010.^[1] A compilation of derivatives were posted to BuzzFeed on June 21st, 2010.^[2] An article was published on Urlesque later that month on June 29th.^[3] The first Reddit thread titled “Annoying Facebook Girl” was posted on August 16th, 2010.^[4] A Quickmeme page was created in February of 2011.^[5] A compilation was posted to Failbook on March 21st, 2011.^[6]

A Facebook page has over 2000 likes as of June 2011.^[7] Derivatives can be found with the tag “annoying facebook girl” on Tumblr.^[8] There is an Android application available in the Android Market.^[9]

Identity

On December 20th, 2011, a thread was posted by Redditor boyann to the /r/funny subreddit titled “I’m currently talking to somebody on Facebook who is best friends with the cover girl for the ‘Annoying Facebook Girl’ meme. She couldn’t be more confused” and contained screenshots of a Facebook page with the original Annoying Facebook Girl photo as well as a conversation with someone reported to be her “best friend.”

The same day, The Daily Dot^[11] published an article titled “Annoying Facebook Girl or innocent Internet victim” about the thread. Shortly after, Redditor average_fan replied^[12] to the thread after doing some detective work, claiming that the post was a hoax:

I smell something fishy… Found Megan via boyann’s Facebook (with some uber stalking skills) and that pic is uploaded about a week ago… found that so called Jess in he friendslist, has only one open pic and account was created on December 6th…
Google searched for that pic, found another girl with that exact photoset someone posted – account made in May 2010 and the album where she uploaded the pictures is last updated over a year ago.
Even if that girl in the picture IS Annoying Facebook Girl, it’s not that friend Jess, that’s for sure…

Notable Derivatives

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Search Interest

Search queries for “annoying facebook girl” began in June 2010, corresponding with the post date of the archived 4chan thread. Queries had their first spike the following month, and appears to be on the rise again as of June 2011.

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