60-Year-Old Girl

60-Year-Old Girl

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Updated May 05, 2019 at 10:17AM EDT by andcallmeshirley.

Added Dec 12, 2013 at 09:45PM EST by Don.

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About

60-Year-Old Girl is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a young girl with a short haircut and large glasses. The captions typically contain stereotypes attributed to elderly women combined with the characteristics of a young child.

Origin

On December 10th, 2013, Redditor Beerdrummer submitted a post titled "My wife looked like a 60 year old woman as a child" to the /r/funny[1] subreddit, featuring a photograph of a young girl with a short haircut and large eyeglasses (shown below). In the first 48 hours, the post received over 23,800 up votes and 940 comments.


photo of a young girl with an elderly sense of fashion with short hair and big glasses

Spread

Less than an hour after the photograph was posted, Redditor LetsGetRamblin submitted a captioned version of the photo titled "60 Year-Old Girl" to the /r/funny[2] subreddit (shown below, left). On the same day, Redditor otisshredding submitted an image macro to /r/funny[3]joking that the young girl covers her toy furniture in plastic wrap (shown below, right). In the first 48 hours, the posts gained more than 21,800 and 27,800 up votes respectively.


60 year old girl macro about getting hot flashes from a toy oven 60 year old girl macro about covering doll furniture in plastic wrap

In the coming days, over 300 examples were submitted to the /r/AdviceAnimals[4] subreddit and articles about the series were published on several news sites, including UpRoxx,[6] Mashable,[5] BuzzFeed[7] and E Online.[8]

Identity

On December 11th, Yahoo posted a video interview with Clayton (Redditor Beerdrummer) and Lindsay Prater (shown below), in which the married couple explained how they reacted to the meme's success.



Notable Examples


GRADUATES FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RETIRES KEEPS HER HALLOWEEN CANDY IN A GLASS DISH ON HER COFFEE TABLE LOSES BABY TEET GETS DENTURES FALLS OFF THE SWING 雄 BREAKS HIP SENT TO PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE FIRED EYE TEST DAY AT SCHOOL GLAUCOMA memegenerator.net

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