About

Types of Headaches is a series of photoshopped images, which add a humorous fourth type of headache to a chart of real headaches. The user-added condition represents something that the meme's author dislikes or avoids.

Origin

The earliest known iteration of the chart of headaches comes from a preview image for the article "How to Get Rid of a headache in 5 Minutes Without Pills" on the website Bright Side^[1] on March 24th, 2017.

Spread

The original image with the blue background was used in reposts of the blogpost on websites like anonhq.com^[2] and Beiruiting.com.^[3]

Several months later, on October 30th, Instagram ^[4] user @memes_of_siega, a meme account dedicated to the video game Rainbox Six: Siege posted a reconfigured version of the "Types of Headaches" chart. Broken into four quadrants, the picture has a new, white background, and the user added a fourth headache in which the entire head is colored red and captioned "Seeing doc use all his stims."

Later that day, Instagram^[5] user replaced the fourth head to read "Seeing somebody reinforce kidsbedroom." The post (shown below, left) received more than 5,000 likes in one week.

Several days later, Redditor ^[6] Asianostrich822 posted a variant in the /r/TheWaterLew subreddit. In this version (shown below, center), the fourth head reads "Entering r/dankmemes."

The next day, Redditor^[7] unidentified_swed photoshopped that version to read "Entering r/sequelmemes" in the /r/PrequelMemes subreddit. The post (shown below, right) received more than 1,800 points (96% upvoted) and 20 comments in five days.

On November 3rd, Twitter ^[8] user @chivaskangali posted a variation in which the fourth head reads "Living in Turkey." The post (shown below) recieved more than 2,500 retweets and 11,000 likes in less than a week.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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External References