About

Kid Holding Fire, also known as Student Holding Fire, is an exploitable image macro series depicting a young student holding a ball of fire in his hand while a teacher with an inquisitive look gazes at him. It’s typically used as an object labeling macro to show amazement or shock from the teacher with the fire symbolizing something impressive the student presents to them.

Origin

The original photo used in the meme appears to come from a classroom demonstration/experiment and is seen online for the first time in a post from the Facebook^[1] page Yo Soy UABJO (Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca) on December 15th, 2018. Shown below, the image is used alongside a caption relating to a quote in APA style. This post was liked 124 times and shared 27 times.

Spread

After the initial post on Facebook, the image spread with the same caption to several other Spanish-speaking social accounts on numerous platforms. One example can be seen on Twitter^[2] (seen below) that was tweeted by user Xion Sempai on December 15th, 2018, just hours after the original.

Wache profe, de puro citar en APA pic.twitter.com/w87p9btZQh

— Xion Sempai (@Xion_Sempai) December 15, 2018

In the following days, the blank template was picked up by other users online and turned into various memes using the object labeling format. One such meme, which has been reposted and featured on several sites, comes from Redditor^[3] SeriousSamStone uploaded to the r/MetalMemes sub on December 26th, 2018 (shown below). The post received over 1,300 upvotes.

The format continued to spread in 2019 as it was discovered by users on other social platforms. On Instagram^[4], the account regrettablememes_ posted a version to their feed on March 13th, 2019, relating to XXXTentacion’s death and the release of new music posthumously. The meme was liked nearly 4,400 times.

Another format was posted to the r/memes sub by Redditor^[5] BabyRinseCycle on March 15th, 2019, receiving almost 7,000 upvotes and 47 comments.

In 2020, the format saw a reemergence on Reddit as several users posted memes and requests for the template to various subreddits. One of these was posted to r/dankmemes by Redditor^[6] zavod311 on February 9th, 2020. This meme (seen below) was upvoted over 31,700 times and gifted a silver Reddit award.

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