People Who Thank the Bus Driver

About

People Who Thank the Bus Driver refers to a character depicted as the best of humanity in various meme templates, bearing many similarities to People Who Sort by New.

Origin

On June 16th, 2018, Redditor zenerations posted a joke to /r/dankmemes^[1] featuring two coffins labeled "successful people" and "unsuccessful people" and a lavish Egyptian tomb labeled "People who say thanks to the bus driver when they get off." The post gained over 42,000 points (shown below).

Spread

In the course of the next few hours, the post was reposted to /r/MemeEconomy^[2] where it gained over 12,000 points and to /r/WholesomeMemes,^[3] where it gained over 73 points. Other jokes with the character began appearing on /r/dankmemes. Some popular examples include a post by Dtyrell88 that gained over 11,000 points (shown below, left) and a post by PutinPie that gained over 11,000 points (shown below, right).

The meme continued trending on /r/dankmemes the following day. Another popular post by Dtyrell88 gained over 4,000 points (shown below, left). Another by retarded_bandicoot gained over 1,200 points (shown below, right). A thread about the surge of the jokes gained over 3,600 points on /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[4]

Fornite Update

On June 27th, 2018, Redditor ox232 submitted a post titled "[SUGGESTION] option to thank bus driver before jumping out of the battle bus" to /r/FortNiteBR,^[6] where it received upwards of 11,300 points (89% upvoted) and 320 comments within three months. The following day, a petition titled "Add the ability to thank the bus driver before jumping out of the battle bus in Fortnite" was submitted to Change.org (shown below).^[5] The petition has since been removed.

On August 23rd, Fortnite released an update allowing players to "thank the bus driver" before parachuting out of the flying school bus by pressing down on the directional pad in-game (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

Unavailable

External References