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Obsessed Fan From Swarm is an image macro and reaction image meme featuring actress Dominique Fishback as the character Dre from the Amazon Prime television show Swarm. The show follows Dre, an obsessive fan girl who goes to increasingly violent ends for her favourite pop star Ni'Jah. The meme shows Dre with her shoulders bare, wearing her hair half up in a bun while staring intensely at something above her. The meme first began making the rounds in March 2023, and continued to spread under the phrasal template "When I was 22 asking people X or Y at work" in June 2025.

Origin

The Amazon Prime television show Swarm, created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, debuted on March 17th, 2023. The series followed a young woman named Dre (played by Dominique Fishback) as she lets her obsession with the elusive pop-star Ni'Jah and her fandom, known as The Swarm, take her down an increasingly desperate and violent path.

A teaser trailer for the first season of the show was released on March 13th, 2023, showing a scene from the first episode of the show where Dre is shown staring intensely at a beehive on a tree. The video gathered over 290,000 views on the Amazon Prime YouTube^[1] channel in two years.

The earliest known meme featuring the image of Dre alongside a memetic phrasal template is a March 21st, 2023, tweet by X^[2] user @dojnikaswoo that read, "me when I was 27 asking people 'nicki or cardi?' at work back in 2017." The account has since been suspended, although the post gathered several viral quote tweets and 3 million views in two years.

Spread

On March 25th, 2023, X^[3] user @heyjaeee tweeted the image from Swarm alongside a post that read, "Gays in the 1940s when you said something mean about Judy Garland," gathering over 27,000 likes in two years.

On April 8th, 2023, X^[4] user @aliyahInterlude posted the image in response to Doja Cat calling her older album "mid and corny" on April 8th, 2023, gathering over likes in two years.

The meme saw a resurgence in June 2025, with X^[5] user @navybih posting the image on June 9th, writing, "me when I was 22 asking people 'Rihanna or Beyoncé?' at work back in 2006," and gathering over 100,000 likes in two days.

On June 10th, 2025, X^[6] user @perfectllover tweeted the image, writing, "me when I was 22 asking people 'Madonna or Cyndi?' at work back in 1983," and gathering over 14,000 likes in a day.

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