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Suffering From Success

Suffering From Success

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Updated Apr 27, 2021 at 08:35AM EDT by shevyrolet.

Added Dec 28, 2018 at 08:20AM EST by Philipp.

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About

Suffering From Success refers to a music album released by American producer DJ Khaled on October 22nd, 2013. In 2018, the album cover showing the producer wearing an expression of suffering gained popularity as an image macro.

Origin

On July 31st, 2013, covers for standard (shown below, left) and deluxe (shown below, right) editions of upcoming DJ Khaled album "Suffering from Success" were released[1]. Both covers showed the same image of DJ Khaled donned in jewelry and wearing an expression of suffering, with his forehead resting on his right hand. The album was released on October 22nd, 2013.


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Before August 23rd, 2015, Tumblr[2] user milesupshur posted the album cover together with a caption "when u make a popular post and it blows up your notifications". The post gained over 247,000 likes and reblogs in three years.


milesupshur: when u make a popular post and it blows up ur notifications DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS

Spread

On July 10th, 2017, a meme posted in UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens Facebook group on July 9th that year was included in a report published by New York Magazine[3].


Sunil Balamurugan 17 hrs When your meme gets more than 1k likes D LED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS Like CommentShare 002.3

On July 14th, 2017, Redditor[4] CloudTower posted a version of the meme to /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post gained over 370 upvotes within six months. On May 21st, 2018, CloudTower made another post to /r/dankmemes[5], which gained 4,300 upvotes within six months.


1 Subscriber Special! Spopy Fish 1 year ago 40 views Thaks for 1 subscriber! Music- Env ENN. 0:13 DJ KHALED PARENTAL SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS SORT ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT We Gained A Sub Spopy_Fish No views I'm basically famous now 0:05 I'm basically famous now No views DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS

Through 2018, several notable versions of the meme were posted on Reddit, including /r/memes[6], /r/teenagers[7] and /r/dankmemes[8] subreddits.


When you upload a meme and it gets 4 upvotes in 10 minutes DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS ADVISORY When you get 100s on all your tests, and now your parents have even areater expecations for vou DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT
When your PC is so fast you can't read the loading screen tips DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT When you post a meme just before going to sleep and it starts blowing up and you can't sleep cause of all the notifications DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS

By December 2018 the macro reached mainstream popularity on Reddit, with numerous examples being posted to /r/dankmemes, /r/me_irl and other subreddits.

Various Examples


When you're first place in Mario Kart so you don't get any of the cool items DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT When you roll 3 doubles in Monopoly DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS When Felix can't upload "I lost to Tseries" video because people keep subscribing DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCM
When you're trying to fall asleep, but your nose is stuffed and it's hard to breathe DJ KHALED SUFFERING ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT MEME MAN SUFFERING FROM SUCC MEME ADVISORY SURREAL CONTENT 3rd grade n----- when they finish the classwork early and the teacher gives them more work to do DJ KHALED SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS


Search Interest

External References

[1] Rap-Up – ALBUM COVER: DJ KHALED – ‘SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS’

[2] Tumblr (via Wayback Machine) – milesupshur's post

[3] New York Magazine – The Future of College Is Facebook Meme Groups

[4] Reddit – Suffering From Success Potential?

[5] Reddit – Basically the next PewDiePie

[6] Reddit – It's tuff being famous

[7] Reddit – Shitty meme #9: Finals week edition – with correct grammar

[8] Reddit – I’d say it happens everytime, but I’m not funny

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