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Shirt Sleeve Bunched Up Underneath Jacket Sleeve is an image macro meme featuring an illustration of a transparent jacket sleeve that reveals a shirt sleeve bunched up to the shoulder underneath. The meme expresses feelings of discomfort through an experience to which many relate.

Origin

The earliest known version of the image was posted on February 27th, 2020 by VK^[1] meme page СигнаL. The caption roughly translates to "Everyone has been in this annoying situation." The post received more than 65,000 views and 8,100 reactions in less than one year (shown below).

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On November 25th, 2020, VK^[7] meme page Анонимный чат бот shared a variation of the meme that received more than 31,000 reactions in less than one week (shown below).

On December 24th, 2020, Redditor jacob_3108 shared the image with the caption "everyone: 2021 is not going to be as bad as 2020 / 2021 January" in the /r/memes^[6] subreddit. The post received more than 78,000 points (94% upvoted) and 480 comments in less than one week (shown below, left).

That day, Redditor lucy46290 shared the image in the /r/mildlyinfuriating^[2] subreddit. They titled the thread for the post, "I cringe at this." The image received more than 48,000 points (91% upvoted) and 420 comments in less than one week (shown below, left).

The following day, on December 25th, Twitter ^[3] user @govinuts tweeted the image with the caption, "if ‘uncomfortable’ was a picture." The post received more than 7,100 likes and 870 retweets in less than one week (shown below, center). On December 26th, Facebook ^[4] account losergirl369 shared the meme and received more than 70,000 shares, 14,000 reactions and 990 comments in less than one week. Additionally, that day, Twitter^[5] user @lenarios27 tweeted the meme and received more than 1.3 million likes and 200,000 retweets in less than one week.

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