About

Girls in Class Looking Back is an image macro series featuring an image of a class filled with girls staring at the camera. The meme is typically used to contexts where the person being stared at is viewed as desirable, popular and attractive.

Origin

The earliest known usage of the meme was posted by Twitter ^[1] user @Ermalbytyci on March 25th, 2019. They captioned the image, "Today we will be talking about men with big dicks" (shown below).

Precursor

In the early 2010s, a similar photograph, featuring a group of people, predominately women at a party staring at the camera was also used in a variety of memes.^[4] On December 30th, 2013, the image appeared on the /r/funny subreddit, where it received more than 950 points (81% upvoted) and 210 comments (shown below).

Spread

Days later, on March 30th, 2019, the Facebook ^[2] group ididitallforthelimpbizkitmemes shared a variation of the meme. They captioned the image, "When it's 1999 and you show up to class with frosted tips, the new Limp Bizkit CD, a Korn tee, and brand spankin' JNCOs." The post received more than 2,500 shares, 945 reactions and 245 comments in less than one year (shown below, left).

On May 18th, Twitter^[3] user @kornrare posted a variation of the meme, using a different photograph of girls, adding the caption "you're like emo…right?" The post received more than 25,000 likes and 5,400 retweets in less than one year (shown below, center).

Later that year, on August 20th, Redditor^[3] Bmchriss44 shared the image with the caption "Class, today we'll talk about introverted people with no desire to socialize whatsoever, who spend half of their free time browsing an app hoping it'll make them feel better." The post received more than 40,000 points (92% upvoted) and 540 comments in less than one year (shown below, right).

On February 4th, 2020, the image was the subject of bomboclaat prompt. The post by Twitter^[5] user @flackoyee received more than 15,000 likes and 1,800 retweets in less than one month (shown below).

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