Shia LaBeouf's Paper Bag

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Shia LaBeouf's Paper Bag is a photoshop-based meme derived from a series of exploitable images of American actor and director Shia LaBeouf wearing a paper bag over his head while attending a film festival in Berlin. The act itself also became a target of online parody.

Origin

In December 2013, Shia LaBeouf and his work came under significant media scrutiny after bloggers began noticing similarities between his newly released short film, Howard Cantour.com, and the 2007 comic Justin M. Damiano by cartoonist Dan Clowes.^[1] LaBeouf soon admitted that he had plagiarized Clowes' work and apologized profusely in a series of tweets.

On February 9th, 2014, LaBeouf attended the Berlin Film Festival in Germany with a brown paper bag over his head, with the words "I am not famous anymore" written on it.^[2]

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The Twitter community promptly to responded LaBeouf's bizarre fashion statement by photoshopping his head into scenes and posters of movies he had worked on, particularly the Transformers series, turning his paper bag into an exploitable image.^[3]

Looks like Optimus Prime is behind the Shia LaBeouf bag-head cause: pic.twitter.com/UphpflaMCO
— Total Film (@totalfilm) February 10, 2014

Many Twitter users, looking to mock his new-found reputation of being a plagiarist, also made tongue-in-cheek accusations that he had stolen the idea of wearing a paper bag mask

Shia LeBeouf continues to plagiarize from comics pic.twitter.com/c5sGtH7L9h
— Cameron Stewart (@cameronMstewart) February 10, 2014

Various Examples

Ah, so that’s where Shia LaBeouf got the idea from! pic.twitter.com/Mc4AcnGJ7d
— JamieDMJ (@JamieDMJ) February 10, 2014

Who wore it better, head-bag edition: Shia LaBeouf vs. Clarissa from #Reign. pic.twitter.com/BXhdjlUjLp
— Andy Swift (@AndySwift) February 10, 2014

Hey Shia, I started ret-conning your back catalogue dude. pic.twitter.com/THrVLxCGyX
— Tom Butler (@TomButler) February 10, 2014

Now Shia Labeouf is ripping off Futurama? Langdon Cobb he's not… pic.twitter.com/cLL1gd1XMq
— Rob Tornoe (@RobTornoe) February 10, 2014

Search Interest

External References

^[1] USA Today – Shia LaBeouf apologizes for 'copying' film idea

^[2] Yahoo – Shia LaBeouf's Paper Bag Head Is Meme Gold

^[3] Buzzfeed – The Internet Reacted Hilariously To Shia LaBeouf Wearing A Bag On His Head

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Daretobestupid

Mar 06, 2015 at 09:01PM EST in reply to Gabenus Trollucus

Aww shit SOAD rapetime, you done gone pissed off the Big Man himself!

Particle Mare

Mar 07, 2015 at 05:19AM EST

Okay, I'll be blunt – this entry is in really bad shape. "Paper bags" in general aren't exactly much of an internet meme, which means that even if this entry were improved (given formatting and so on) it would still likely end up deadpooled.

However, it's not beyond saving, but it'll have to be taken off its original track. I did a bit of searching and found that Shia LaBeouf had a paper bag incident which became a viral photoshop meme, which neither his main entry nor his plagiarism sub-entry covers.

So, what I'll do shortly is revamp the entry so that it focuses on that particular publicity stunt by LaBeouf and its subsequent popularity online. I know that it's a huge change from what the OP intended, but it's honestly the only way to justify this entry remaining out of deadpool.

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