About

Me at 3AM is a series of reaction images and videos featuring various depictions of people as wildly energetic during late night hours, which are typically juxtaposed with expressions about being tired as a consequence during the daylight hours.

Origin

On December 7th, 2015, Viner AlliCattt uploaded a video titled "me at 3am," in which she calls 9/11 to frantically report that all the Domino's Pizza locations in her area are closed (shown below). Within six months, the video gained over 113,000 likes and 29,000 revines.

Spread

On March 18th, 2016, Twitter user @FreddyAmazin^[1] posted a "me at 3am" tweet along with a photograph of a woman dancing (shown below, left). Within three months, the tweet garnered upwards of 15,400 likes and 9,600 retweets. On April 24th, Twitter user @chanelpuke^[6] posted several pictures of a man performing martial arts kicks in his room with the caption "Me at 3am," accumulating more than 8,800 retweets and 4,200 likes in two months. On May 1st, the pop culture blog Gurl^[5] published a compilation of notable examples from the series.

On May 7th, the funnywhenitswrong Instagram feed posted a video of an intoxicated woman being arrested on the side of the road with the caption "Me at 2am" (shown below, left). Within two months, the video received over 137,000 views and 1,500 comments. The following day, the epic-humor Tumblr^[3] blog posted a photograph of a man hanging naked from a hospital ceiling with the caption "Me at 3 am" (shown below, right).

On June 12th, Twitter user @kysdolan posted a video of a man dancing in a Shrek costume with the caption "me at 2am" (shown below). Within two weeks, the tweet gathered more than 3,400 likes and 3,200 retweets. On June 17th, The Daily Dot^[2] published an article about the meme.

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