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Shia LaBeouf's Paper Bag
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About
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]
Spread
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
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