About

Overflowing Coffee is an Object Labeling exploitable template in which a cup of coffee is being poured into another, already full cup, representing a usually unwanted overload of a certain object.

Origin

The original image was posted by Instagram user KS_Inspire^[4] on September 29th, 2018 (shown below).

On March 15th, 2019, Instagram user dai_dreemurr^[1] posted the first known object-labeling usage of the picture, using it to represent being overloaded with sad thoughts. The post gained over 110 likes (shown below).

Spread

On March 23rd, Redditor kingdine posted a wholesome edit in /r/memes,^[2] gaining over 100 points (shown below, left). On April 19th, user Full_of_schist posted the template in /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial^[3] (shown below, right).

The template began growing more popular in September of 2019. On September 10th, user a59610 posted an edit to /r/funny that gained over 380 points (shown below, left). On September 9th, Twitter account @CatapultStory posted an example which gained over 60 retweets and 440 likes (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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