Bad Teacher / Are You Ready for Your Lesson?
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Bad Teacher refers to a snowclone spread on Twitter in which an initially unidentified speaker offers to teach a lesson on a certain topic. Then, experts in that topic respond with nervous actions. The punchline is the reveal of who is teaching the lesson.
Origin
On December 31st, 2017, Twitter user @holiday805[1] wrote the first variation of the meme, using memebers of the K-pop girl group Girls' Generation, gaining over 280 retweets and 480 likes (shown below).
Spread
Later that day, Twitter user @itaeye[2] uploaded a more popular variation featuring other K-pop stars, gaining over 1,500 retweets and 2,600 likes (shown below, left). Over the following week, the tweet expanded into other fandoms, and generally followed a formula wherein the one promoting a lesson would be a humorous example of someone who did not know the topic at hand. For example, a popular example tweeted by @yomiadegoke[3] referenced Big Shaq teaching math, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 1,600 likes (shown below, right).
Other variations on the tweet used the format to make more sincere fandom-based points. For example, Twitter user @Track9__[4] uploaded a joke about the successful albums of Lorde and Taylor Swift, gaining over 270 retweets (shown below, left). A fan account of actor Timothy Chamelée used the format to praise the actor, gaining over 40 retweets and 160 likes (shown below, right).[5] The tweets were covered by The Daily Dot.[6]
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External References
[1] Twitter – holiday805
[3] Twitter – yomiadegoke
[5] Twitter – @mysteryoftimmy
[6] The Daily Dot – The zany, transcendent ‘bad teacher’ meme is having a moment
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