Rebellious Asian

About

Rebellious Asian is an advice animal character based on a portrait of a smiling Asian youth and bait-and-switch captions that combine a rebellious premise (i.e., “skips class”) with a counter-statement that proves him to be a well-behaved student. (i.e., “to study in library for another class.”)

Origin

One of the earliest instances was posted via r/AdviceAnimals by Redditor cchsbball23 in a thread titled “Rebellious Asian”^[1] on January 30th, 2012. The original instance hosted on imgur^[2] gained over 820,000 views in the first 72 hours of upload.

The image was positively received across Tumblr^[5], Quickmeme^[3] and Memebase^[6] among other humor blogs, the original template image has yet to be located anywhere online. The unavailability of a blank template image has led to a number of complaints and requests in the comments^[2], while some Memegenerator^[4] users have uploaded cropped or altered versions of the original image as substitutes.

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