Derploma Guy
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About
Derploma Guy, also known as Mischievous Mike, is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a student wearing a mischievous grin at his high school graduation ceremony. The captions typically confess to committing mild indiscretions and telling white lies, in a similar vein to I Too Like to Live Dangerously image macros.
Origin
On June 5th, 2015, Imgur[1] user DerplomaGuy submitted a photograph of himself wearing a furled upper lip facial expression while holding a diploma at his graduation ceremony (shown below). Within five days, the image received more than one million views, 19,000 points and 600 comments.
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On June 6th, Imgur[2] user okayyoucanlaughandjokearound posted an edited Javert reaction GIF with the Derploma Guy superimposed over police inspector Javert peering through a window (shown below, left). The same day, the official Imgur[3] blog published a post about the image macro series titled "DerplomaGuy Takes Over Imgur." Also on June 6th, Imgur[6] user pintozoz submitted a Derploma Guy image macro mocking a poorly designed update to Imgur's Android mobile operating system application (shown below, right). Within four days, the images gained over 910,000 and 540,000 views respectively. In the coming days, the news sites Metro[9], The Huffington Post[10], Elite Daily[11], Loop[12] and The Chive[13] published compilation articles highlighting the advice animal character.
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External References
[1] Imgur – I graduated high school last week, and this picture of me made it into my local newspaper / Posted on 4-6-2015
[2] Imgur – Derploma Guys Reaction when he successfully creates a new meme and waits for all the girls to show up
[3] Imgur – Derploma Guy Takes Over Imgur
[4] Imgur – Derploma Guy
[5] Imgur – Mischievous Mike Is At It Again
[6] Imgur – Time to use mobile web browser
[7] Imgur – I Like This Guy
[8] Imgur – Damn It Mischievous Mike
[9] Metro – Guy posts graduation photo online; becomes internet celeb and meme overnight
[10] The Huffington Post – Guy Posts Picture Of Graduating On Internet, Becomes 'Derploma Guy' Meme
[11] Elite Daily – The ‘Derploma’ Guy’s Graduation Photo Is Equally Awkward And Amazing
[12] Loop – Derploma Guy is the internet’s latest meme
[13] The Chive – Derploma might be the most legendary graduation picture ever taken
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Top Comments
Particle Mare
Jun 07, 2015 at 04:27AM EDT
Mr. Man
Jun 07, 2015 at 01:42PM EDT