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Being Vaccinated Does Not Mean is a phrasal template that parodies social media posts about health regulations regarding vaccinations. However, instead of presenting rules of conduct for vaccinated people, the author will follow the phrase "being vaccinated does NOT mean" with the general description of a popular piece of media, such as a movie or book plot.

Origin

Throughout 2021, social media posts about safe conduct for people who have received the coronavirus grew in frequency. For example, on April 4th, 2021 American sociologist Professor Crystal Fleming tweeted, ^[1] "Please don’t think being fully vaxxed is a license to go buck wild this summer. With that mentality, we’ll never get out of this mess. Delayed gratification, y’all. Yes, things will gradually improve but if we’re lucky, getting vaxxed now *might* save the summer of 2022.." The post received 1,500 retweets and 985 comments in less than one week (shown below).

Following posts like Professor Fleming's, on April 6th, 2021, Twitter ^[2] user @jheimbrock tweeted the earliest known version of the meme. They posted the plot to the play and film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, "Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can host a younger Professor and his wife over for a seemingly endless night of booze and sick little mind games" (shown below). The tweet received more than 37,000 likes and 2,600 retweets in less than two days.

Spread

Throughout the day on April 6th, people began sharing variations of the meme, posting the format with references to different pieces of media. For example, Twitter^[3] user @LaurenPokedoff tweeted the plot to the musical Mamma Mia!. They wrote, "Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can invite three men who you believe might be your father to your destination wedding in Greece without telling anyone." The tweet received more than 98,000 likes and 10,000 retweets in less than two days (shown below, left).

Actor Matt Ford tweeted the plot to the movie Clue. They tweeted,^[4] "being vaccinated does NOT mean you can invite six people you’ve been blackmailing over and pretend to be your butler while coercing them into killing all your informants. no matter how convoluted your scheme might be. please be smart." The tweet received more than 24,000 likes and 4,000 retweets in less than two days (shown below, center).

The following day, Twitter^[5] account for Spark Notes tweeted the plot to the The Great Gatsby. The account posted, "Being vaccinated does NOT mean you can host an extravagant party at your West Egg mansion that symbolizes the superficiality and moral corruption of the rich" (shown below, right). The tweet received more than 31,000 likes and 5,700 retweets in less than two days (shown below, right).

On April 8th, the website StayHipp^[6] published an article about the meme.

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