Forever Resentful Mother

About

Forever Resentful Mother is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a middle-aged woman holding a glass of red wine with captions that portray her as being bitter about her children’s existence and emotionally manipulative.

Origin

On January 25th, 2012, Redditor MidnRainbow submitted the first instance to the /r/adviceanimals subreddit in a post titled “Introducing: Forever Resentful Mother” and was captioned with “Do your godamned chores / I had a C-section for you.” The post reached the front page and accumulated over 2,500 up votes in 40 hours.

  

The theme of dysfunctional motherhood has been previously explored through other advice animal macros like sheltering suburban mom and single mom , as well as characters in popular sitcoms, such as Lucille Bluth from the sitcom series Arrested Development.

Spread

On January 26th, a derivative was submitted to the humor site FunnyJunk^[4], a “best of” compilation was posted to BuzzFeed^[3] and the series was mentioned in a post on Mashable titled “Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now.”^[5] The same day, a post was made to the parenting blog Strollerderby^[7] explaining the series. The original Quickmeme^[2] page received over 500 submissions in less the 48 hours.

Several posts on Reddit have compared the advice animal character to Lucille Bluth (played by Jessica Walter) from the TV sitcom series Arrested Development. A “Resentful Mother FIXED”^[6] Quickmeme page was subsequently created using an image of the Bluth matriarch.

Notable Examples

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