Chubby Bubbles Girl

Chubby Bubbles Girl

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About

Chubby Bubbles Girl is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of a girl running through a yard with a bubble maker in her hand. This exploitable series is similar in form to Disaster Girl, Crasher Squirrel and Thundersnow Ice Cream Cone Guy.

Origin

The identities of the girl in the photo and the photographer still remain unknown, but the original image first appeared online via imageboard community 4chan[1] in a /b/ (random) thread posted on August 22nd, 2009.


The Chubby Bubbles Girl running in her yard

On 4chan, images containing an exploitable cutout of the girl have been also referred to as "Bubbles Girl" or simply "Chubbles." Somewhat similar to the use of Disaster Girl and Strutting Leo, Chubby Bubbles Girl is usually photoshopped into scenes of disasters or chase-and-run scenarios.

Spread

In between August 22nd and 23rd, 2009, Chubby Bubbles Girl emerged as a popular subject of photoshop-related threads[2] on 4chan imageboards and quickly made its way over to the micro-blogging service Tumblr[3] On September 12th, BuzzFeed[4] editor Scott Lamb, then a power user on the site, created the post titled "What is Bubbles Girl Running From?" challenging readers to create their own photoshopped versions with an exploitable cutout:

She's got her bubbles, but she's definitely on the run from something. Use our photo editor or grab the image transparency to help us find out!



By September 23rd, users on 4chan[5] celebrated its newly reached memetic status in a /b/ (random) thread with repetitive chants of "NEW MEME NEW MEME NEW MEME." Later in the same month, MemeGenerator[6] launched an image macro application for "Chubby Bubbles Girl," spawning a modest collection of 200 derivatives in the span of two months. There is also a Facebook fan page[7] dedicated to Chubby Bubbles Girl with just over 600 likes.

Notable Examples



Chubby Gaddaf

Search Interest

According to Google Insights, search queries for "Bubbles Girl" yielded its highest spike in July 2009 following the introduction of photoshopping threads on 4chan's /b/. Despite the large volume of
derivatives generated by 4chan and Buzzfeed, the overall interest in "Chubby Bubbles Girl" has waned since peaking in 2009.

External References

[1] 4chanarchive – August 22nd, 2009 Chubby Bubbles Girl Thread (NSFW)

[2] 4chanarchive – August 23rd, 2009 Chubby Bubbles Girl (NSFW)

[3] Tumblr – Tagged Results for Chubby Bubbles Girl

[4] BuzzFeed – What's Bubble Girl Running From?

[5] 4chanarchive via Wayback Machine – /b/ thread 154654064

[6] Memegenerator – Chubby Bubbles Girl

[7] Facebook – Chubby Bubbles Girl

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Top Comments

Nightfury Treann
Nightfury Treann

Examples of a good meme: something people enjoyed a lot and made tons of edits about it that even after 10 years, is still well remembered

Example of a bad meme: Any tiktok "meme" that is forgotten after 15 minutes of you reading the title of it

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ValjeanLafitte
ValjeanLafitte

Dear KYM editors:

Before celebrating the anniversary of an old meme by sharing that meme's page on the main page, why not make sure the page is actually up-to-date? 6 years ago KYM user Eriks linked to the photographer's page in the comment section below. 4 years ago DaveLV reminded you that the photographer's name is Anna Jurkovska and that she is from Latvia. There is no excuse that after 8 years and 8 different editors that this information still hasn't been added to the article. Now is as good a time as any.

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