About

Jogging Justin Trudeau refers to a series of photoshop memes in which people alter a picture of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jogging through a group of people taking prom pictures.

Origin

On May 19th, 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s photographer, Adam Scotti, posted a photograph of Trudeau jogging through a group of students taking prom pictures in Vancouver (shown below) on Twitter.^[2] The photobombing went viral, and Scotti’s post received more than 1,500 likes on Instagram^[1] and 1,700 retweets and 7,500 likes on Twitter within three days.

Spread

On May 20th, Redditor Artvandelay1^[3] posted the photo of Trudeau to the thread “Justin Trudeau jogs through prom photo and nobody notices” in the /r/canada subreddit. The post received more than 23,900 points (83% upvoted) and 1,500 comments.

Three days later, on May 23rd, Redditor santorumsandwich^[4] posts the photo on the /r/photoshopbattle subreddit. Within 24 hours, the thread has received more than 33,600 points (81% upvoted) and 590 comments.

The original photo and the photoshop battle has been covered by several news sites, including TIME,^[5] Glamour,^[6] HuffPo,^[7] and more.

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