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Scooter Girl refers to a nickname given to Kenyatta Jefferson who became the subject of a viral photograph in which she is depicted photobombing a wedding photograph on an electric scooter.

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On July 4th, 2019, the Facebook ^[1] account for Molly B. Giangreco Photography published a series of wedding party photographs restaging a photobombing by Kenyatta Jefferson on a scooter. In the post, the story of the photobombing is explained: "Help us find 'Scooter Girl'! 🛴 When your wedding is in downtown Omaha during the College World Series, you never really know what might happen. This woman, having the time of her life on a scooter, kept riding past us – posing for photos and we LOVE her for it!" The post received more than 5,900 reactions, 2,700 shares and 500 comments (shown below).

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That day, the post was updated to read: "Omaha! You’re crazy! You found her in less than an hour! Thank you all! This amazing woman is…. Kenyatta Jefferson!"

The following week, Yahoo ^[2] published a story on the photographs, interviewing Jefferson. as well as the groom Matt Reilly. Jefferson said, "The Lime Scooters had just arrived in Omaha and [we’d] been wanting to try out the Lime scooters […] I love jumping into people’s pictures and if the opportunity comes I take it. I’m there thinking to myself, ‘I’m going to photobomb this picture. As she was taking the picture I zoomed through."

Reilly responded positively to the photobomb. He said, "We are a group of guys who like to do things in the moment so it was the perfect timing and place for it to happen. If you could see the rest of the photo reel you would see a bunch of guys acting like 5-year-olds, so it’s no surprise to the people that know us that we would bring a random stranger into our wedding shoot."

According to Jefferson, she was invited back into the shoot, so that they could recreate the photobombing.

On July 13th, 2019, Kenyatta Jefferson wrote on Facebook,^[3] "Thinking 'I can't believe I'M SCOOTERGIRL🛴'" (shown below).

On July 15th, BuzzFeed ^[4] published a piece on the story, speaking with the photographer Molly Giangreco. She said, "We were on the last leg of group photos, and I took all the groomsmen out on the main strip That’s when this girl on a scooter and her husband came rolling through. The guys just yelled, 'Wow that was awesome, you’re awesome, come back through! And she just nailed it with her facial expression."

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