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Bag Full of Elf Bars and My Friend Is an Elementary School Teacher… What They Confiscated This Month refers to a photo of a white trash bag filled with Elf Bars (a brand of disposable vape) which became associated with the aforementioned phrasal template on the website formerly known as Twitter in mid-2023. The post received a community note and inspired satirical usage of the image going forward. Also, many meme creators paired visually similar images showing a large group of objects with the phrasal template, replacing the imagined elementary school's location.

Origin

On August 6th, 2023, X^[1] user @MostEvilMan posted a photo of a white trash bag filled with Elf Bars, captioning it, "Gonna throw these in the trash," and gaining roughly 4,500 likes in two days (shown below, left). On the following day, August 7th, X^[2] user @hopes_revenge posted the same image, captioning it, "My friend is an elementary school teacher in SoCal sent me this picture-- what they confiscated this month," gaining roughly 62,200 likes in one day (shown below, right).

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In the hours following @hopes_revenge's post, many X users posted viral quote retweets in which they seemed to believe the post's story, such as X^[3] user @DGisSERIOUS who related the imagined scenario to Juul, gaining roughly 49,300 likes in one day (shown below, left). Soon after, a community note was added to the bottom of @hopes_revenge's post, which they humorously pointed out in a viral reply^[4] on August 7th, gaining roughly 2,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

Meme creators on X then began to pair the catchphrase with other images. One of the first known was posted by X^[5] user @TheWapplehouse on August 7th, 2023, who posted a photo of empty "whip-it" canisters, gaining roughly 29,100 likes in a day (shown below, left). Others began to satirize @hopes_revenge stealing the original photo. For instance, X^[6] user @lunch_enjoyer jokingly added his own watermarks to the photo, gaining roughly 1,300 likes in a day (shown below, right).

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