A Celebration Of Life Obituary

About

A Celebration Of Life Obituary refers to an exploitable image and video of an obituary artwork titled "A Celebration Of Life," accompanied by Mariah Carey's song "Bye Bye" and often contains various humorous images superimposed over the original photograph. The meme went viral in February 2019 on Twitter / X, becoming a popular Stan Twitter reaction video.

Origin

The "A Celebration Of Life Obituary" image is based on a stock image template titled "Spring Design Funeral," which has been available online since 2016 (shown below, left).^[1] One of the earliest uses of the template in a meme, however, was posted on X^[2] by user @modelboyjd on February 26th, 2017, who photoshopped a picture of rapper Nicki Minaj paired with a caption pretending the singer had died. The post (shown below, right) amassed more than 368 likes and 214 retweets in seven years.

Spread

In May 2019, the "A Celebration Of Life Obituary" meme became a popular "Stan Twitter" reaction video paired with Mariah Carey's "Bye Bye." For example, on May 19th, 2019, X^[3] @LuxiaSubs posted the obituary template, adding the faces of two Star vs. the Forces of Evil cartoon characters (shown below). The post amassed roughly 55 likes and 20 retweets in five years.

The exploitable image also became a popular meme on TikTok. For example, on January 27th, 2024, TikTok^[4] user @user32784271 added a picture of rappers Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion together, referencing their feud. The post (shown below, left) received more than 527,000 plays and 122,000 likes in three months. On July 1st, 2023, TikTok^[5] user @arianakpeta posted the former Twitter logo after Elon Musk decided to change the name and logo of the microblogging app and social media platform Twitter to the letter "X" following his Twitter acquisition. The video (shown below, right) garnered roughly 41,000 plays and 8,300 likes in a year.

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