Bad Acronyms

Bad Acronyms

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Updated Jan 27, 2020 at 04:38AM EST by Y F.

Added May 25, 2017 at 01:04PM EDT by Adam.

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About

Bad Acronyms are a series of jokes and photoshopped image macros where the words of an acronym do not match up with the letters of that acronym. An acronym is a mnemonic device where each letter in a word stands for another word (for example, the word "Scuba" is an acronym for for " S elf – C ontained U nderwater B reathing A pparatus). The jokes are generally used in shitposts.

Precursor

Before becoming an internet joke, several images of bad acronyms went viral online to decent spread (examples shown below).


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Origin

While the origins of the Bad Acronym Shitpost aesthetic are unclear, posts on /r/MemeEconomy[1] indicate the rise of the format began in March of 2017. On March 9th, Instagram user crit.a.cola[2] uploaded an image macro that read "Yeah I'm G.A.Y. Grateful For Jesus," gaining over 1,600 likes (shown below).


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Spread

Four days later, a deep fried version of the post was posted to /r/MemeEconomy.[1] Several more edits[3][4][5] appeared on the subreddit in the coming week as most users enthusiastically recommended "buying" into the format.


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Over the following months, the format would remain in decent use with several popular reddit posts using the format. For example, on May 20th, user Trash_garbage_waste[6] uploaded a variation with Pac-man using the Respect Women meme that gained over 7,200 points on the subreddit (shown below, left). On the 24th, user le kijf posted a deconstructed version to /r/coaxedintoasnafu,[7] gaining over 900 points (shown below, right).


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Various Examples


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