About

Forced to Drink Milk is an object-labeling image macro series using a photograph of a young woman holding an opened bottle of milk up to a kneeling woman's mouth while pulling her hair.

Origin

On December 15th, 2017, photographer Eugeny Hramenkov uploaded the original image of a woman holding a bottle of milk to another woman's mouth to Instagram.^[6] The image received more than 3,000 likes in less than three years (shown below).

Spread

On December 16th, 2017, Instagram user @soska_117^[1] uploaded a photograph of herself holding a milk bottle to another woman's mouth (shown below). Within seven months, the post gained over 4,000 likes.

On March 14th, 2018, the photo captioned with a Stephen Hawking joke was submitted to /r/dankmemes^[4] and hosted on Imgur ^[3] by Redditor IMPER1AL (shown below, left). On April 13th, Redditor plo_koon_ submitted the image captioned with "normies," "Zucc memes" and "Reddit" to /r/dankmemes,^[2] where it gathered upwards of 3,600 points (96% upvoted) and 110 comments within two months (shown below, right).

On June 16th, Redditor StijnElegeert posted the image captioned with "Reddit / A way to define my self worth / Me" (shown below, left).^[5] On June 18th, Redditor StijnElegeert posted the image captioned with a Thanking the Bus Driver joke (shown below, right).

Elon Musk Post

On February 14th, 2023, Elon Musk posted a variation on the template as a way to send up an algorithmic change that promoted his tweets above others at the company.

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