About

Volleyball Booty, also known as Volleyball Butts and Thicc Volleyball Player, is an image macro series in which a photoshopped picture of two volleyball player's rear ends is object labeled with various humorous captions, representing the smaller posterior as something inferior to the larger one.

Origin

On October 27th, 2011, Redditor therabbiscat submitted a photograph zoomed in on the buttocks of two young women playing volleyball to the /r/VolleyballGirls^[1] subreddit (shown below, left). The following month, a photoshopped version of the picture was submitted to the New Schoolers Forums^[2] in a post titled "Volleyball shorts appreciation thread" (shown below, right).

On October 23rd, 2018, Redditor vlas667 submitted the photoshopped version of the image labeled with Rick and Morty and Futurama to /r/dankmemes^[3] (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 43,800 points (84% upvoted) and 900 comments.

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That day, Redditor Pintexxz posted the image captioned with the labels Fortnite and Minecraft (shown below, left). Also on October 23rd, Redditor bananapooper2000 posted the image with the logos for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome superimposed over the women's buttocks (shown below, right).

The following day, Redditor Mciscool200 submitted a Netflix Adaptation variation of the image to /r/MemeEconomy, where it received more than 11,400 points (88% upvoted) and 1,000 comments that day (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Redditor sub_to_naffa submitted the image captioned with jokes about Reddit upvotes to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, right). Within nine hours, the post gained over 31,300 points (88% upvoted) and 260 comments.

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