About

Very Expensive Milkshake is a series of anti-meme image macros with jokes referencing a "very expensive milkshake," which began circulating on the Exploding Fish Shitposting Weird Facebook meme page in early June 2017.

Origin

On June 5th, 2017, the Exploding Fish Shitposting and Senseless Drivel, Inc.Facebook^[2] page posted a Baton Roue comic in which the bike rider says "i feel the urge for a very expensive milkshake right now," announcing that "very expensive milkshake" was a "new meme" (shown below).

Spread

On June 6th, the Exploding Fish Shitposting page posted a comic of a man ordering a "very expensive milkshake" at a restaurant (shown below, left).^[1] The same day, the page posted a photoshopped picture of a homeless man holding a sign begging for money to afford a "very expensive milkshake (shown below, right).^[3] Within 48 hours, the posts gained over 4,200 and 1,400 reactions respectively.

In the coming days, several pages dedicated to the meme were created on Facebook, including The Expensive Milkshake Society, Very Expensive Milkshake Memes for Lactose Tolerant Tweens and Expensive Milkshake Memes for Bonehurt Teens (shown below).

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