About

Painfully Relatable Jack-O-Lanterns is an image edit series in which participants add text to a blank pumpkin, adding common irritations.

Origin

On October 2nd, 2019, the creative marketing agency Article Group (AG) tweeted ^[1] two templates of blank pumpkins. They captioned the post, "The spooky season is finally upon us, which means arguing about candy corn & of course, carving pumpkins! What’s a terrifying thing from your everyday life you'd write on a “painfully relatable jack-o-lantern”? Write your answer on one of these pumpkins. Winner gets a trophy!" Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 1,200 likes and 245 retweets (shown below).

Spread

@ArticleGroup was the first to respond to their own tweet,^[2] sharing an example with the word "Decaf Coffee" on the pumpkin. The tweet received more than 1,700 likes and 275 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, left).

Throughout the day, @ArticleGroup and others shared variations of the meme (examples below, center and right).

That day, Twitter^[3] posted a Moments page about the examples.

Various Examples

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