About

Running Joe Budden is a photoshop and reaction image series based on several videos of rapper Joe Budden chasing down two young men for filming him in his driveway.

Origin

On July 24th, several Snapchat videos began circulating on Twitter, showing two young men approaching Joe Budden in his driveway, who subsequently chases them down for disturbing him (shown below).^[2][3][4][9] In several of the tweets, the two men are described as fans of Drake and his record label OVO Sound.

Spread

That same day, Twitter user @PhillyCustoms^[5] posted a tweet juxtaposing a screen capture of Budden running juxtaposed next to a screen capture of the T-1000 android assassin from the 1990 science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgement Day (shown below, left). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 1,600 retweets and 1,000 likes. Meanwhile, Twitter user @the_blueprint posted a screencapture of Budden staring into a car window with a caption referencing Budden's 2003 hip hop song "Pump It Up" (shown below, right).

Additionally, several Twitter users posted photoshops featuring a screenshot of Budden running superimposed into a variety of humorous contexts (shown below).^[6][7][8]

Also on July 24th, Budden tweeted^[3] "these are some of the greatest memes ever," but warned against kids approaching strangers homes (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 5,800 retweets and 5,200 likes. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the videos, including Complex,^[10] UpRoxx,^[11] Metro^[12] and VH1.^[13]

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