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Emotionally: I'm Done, Mentally: I'm Drained is a four-panel exploitable of a man looking forlorn and then, in the last panel, he is smiling. These photographs are captioned, respectively: "Emotionally, I'm done; Mentally: I'm drained; Spiritually: I feel dead; Physically: I smile." The final panel features a punchline for a humorous or absurd effect.

Origin

On June 2nd, 2014, Instagram ^[1] user @rahbanks posted the original four-panel image macro. The post received more than 75 likes in less than six years (shown below).

Precursor

The phrase has been a viral quote since as early as 2012, when it was posted by Blogspot^[2] user vchambem on January 10th, 2012, the earliest available usage of the quote. On May 25th, 2015, Facebook ^[3] user TheRelationshipMemes posted the quote. The post received more than 2,400 likes, 560 shares and 50 comments in less than five years (shown below).

Spread

On May 24th, 2015, Instagram^[4] user @petty_nwa_ shared the image.

On December 1st, 2018, Twitter ^[3] user @fuckin_yeehaw tweeted a deep-fried version of the image with the final panel reading, "Online I Yeehaw." The post received more than 250 likes and 100 retweets in less than one year (shown below, left).

On January 22nd, 2019, Redditor ^[5] Parzival3402 shared the image on the /r/im14andthisisdeep subreddit.

On March 25th, a Redditor^[6] shared a version that features a lyric by the rapper Young Thug in the /r/teenagersnew subreddit (shown below, center).

Later that year, Facebook^[7] user brokeniqqasociety shared a popular variant of the meme in which the final panel reads "Online Im racist." The post received more than 715 reactions, 565 shares and 85 comments (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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