About

Suave Six-Year-Old (a.k.a. "Cheesy Pick-Up Line Kid") is an image macro series featuring a photograph of a six-year-old kid making a sly facial expression with a raised eyebrow and a smirk. The captions typically consist of cheesy pick-up lines.

Origin

The original photo of the six-year-old child was posted to Reddit by his father, user "superluminal", on May 3rd, 2011. The thread was titled "My son turns 6 on Thursday. I told him to smile nicely for his Kindergarten picture. This is what we got. (pic)".^[1]

The names "Cheesy Pick-Up Line Kid" and "Suave six year old" have been coined by redditors "billyfazz" and "Perturbed_Spartan" respectively, in the comment thread of the original photo:

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Before the image macros began, the photograph was subject to various photoshops. Some notable examples included making him smile by symmetrically duplicating the image, putting him in a gangster scene, and making him look like a biker.

The photograph was submitted on Quickmeme on May 3rd, 2011. There have been over 130 Quickmeme submissions, and over 30 relevant Reddit threads as of May 9th, 2011.

Notable Examples

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External References

^[1] Reddit – My son turns 6 on Thursday. I told him to smile nicely for his Kindergarten picture. This is what we got. / Posted on 5-3-2011

^[2] Quickmeme – Suave Six-Year-Old Posted on 5-3-2011