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The Five Stages of Grief
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About
The Five Stages of Grief is an image macro series featuring pictures of psychiatrist Kübler-Ross' "five stages of grief" model for understanding the emotional process of terminally ill patients juxtaposed with photographs humorously parodying each stage.
Origin
In 1969, Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced the five stages of grief in her book On Death and Dying, which described many of her experiences working with terminally ill patients. In order, the stages include denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. While the model became widely accepted in popular culture, it was criticized in academia for lacking empirical evidence to support it. On July 2nd, 2007, DeviantArtist[6] whitegryphon uploaded an MS Paint comic titled "5 Stages of Grief," marking one of the earliest known images parodying the Kübler-Ross model posted online (shown below).
Spread
On August 24th, 2010, a page titled "Five Stages of Grief" was created on TV Tropes.[5] On March 28th, 2012, DeviantArtist[7] Jabnormalities posted an exploitable comic based on the 5 stages titled "5 Stages of Grief Meme" (shown below, left). Over the next several years, various iterations of the comic were uploaded to the visual art site (shown below).
On February 4th, 2016, Redditor FutureFormerRedditor submitted a Trump-themed image macro titled "5 Stages of Trump" to /r/The_Donald[4] (shown below).
On December 2nd, Tumblr user neproxrezi posted an image depicting the The Daily Show host Trevor Noah going through the five stages of grief while interviewing conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren (shown below).
On August 20th, 2017, Twitter user @daisyowl[1] submitted a version of the image featuring different brands of imitation butter (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 52,300 likes and 25,300 retweets. That evening, Redditor phasma11 reposted the image to /r/_me_irl,[2] where it garnered more than 20,800 points (96% upvoted) and 130 comments within 14 hours. The following day, Redditor Ryanite reposted the image to /r/MemeEconomy,[3] receiving more than 7,200 points (95% upvoted) and 65 comments in three hours.
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External References
[3] Reddit – /r/me_irl shows that stages of grief memes likely to do very well
[4] Reddit – 5 Stages of Trump
[5] TV Tropes – Five Stages of Grief
[6] DeviantArt – 5 Stages of Grief
[7] DeviantArt – 5 Stages of Grief Meme
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