About

Smug Pooing Baby is an image macro series based on a photograph of an infant smiling with his arms behind his head in a chair, which was purportedly taken immediately after he soiled himself, accompanied by captions portraying the baby as a smug and overconfident individual, as well as various references to potty training.

Origin

On May 2nd, 2016, Imgur^[1] user atodaso uploaded a photograph of an infant boy along with the title "Every time he craps his pants, he puts his hands behind his head and smirks." Within 48 hours, the photo received upwards of one million views and 14,700 points.

Spread

That day, Imgur user IneegoMontoya uploaded the photo along with the caption "MRW I've Put In My 2 Weeks Notice / And I'm Just Coming In And Watching It All Fall Apart" (shown below). Within 48 hours, the image received more than 400,000 views and 6,800 points.

Also on May 2nd, other Imgur users posted various image macros using the baby photograph, including a joke about infant incontinence (shown below, left) and a photoshopped picture comparing the baby to Martin Shekreli and Donald Trump (shown below, right).^[2][3]

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the meme, including The Daily Dot,^[4] Cosmopolitan^[5] and ForeverVogue.^[6]

Search Interest

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