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Aafsha @aafxsha Follow Personally offended by the international students meme. Bitch if I had a $ for every time someone thought I was rich, l'd be able to afford this BURBERRY LOUIS NET WT 31 02.8 1502) 89

pisano Follow @BRNDNPIZ When international students bring cupcakes to class on their birthday

Follow @DJ_InSanity International students water bottle

Mariam @Maryftaddoh Follow Fruits for international Students 螶 24

mallu papi @shyxmm Follow international students arent always rich like bruh some of us broke 99% of the time chill 11:12 PM-3 Apr 2018

andy @lighterature Follow rise and shine, international students BURBERRY r LOUIS VUITTON

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What International Students Eat refers to a photoshop meme popular on Twitter which parodies lavish lifestyles of some students who study internationally by saying they eat foods edited to feature the logo of a luxury fashion brand.

Origin

On March 31st, 2018, Twitter user @eliesaaab^[1] tweeted images of Versace jewelry in a Chinese takeout box with the Versace logo. The following day, user @bengalitrash^[2] quote-tweeted the tweet with the caption "What international students have for lunch," gaining over 48,000 retweets and 185,000 likes (shown below).

Follow @bengalitrash What international students have for lunch femme fatale @eliesaaab 2:48 PM -1 Apr 2018 from Birmingham, England

Spread

After that tweet spread through Twitter, other users made photoshops riffing on the joke. On April 3rd, Twitter user @hasan_p tweeted an image of an egg with the Louis Vitton logo photoshopped onto it, saying "International students at breakfast." The tweet gained 76,000 retweets and 263,000 likes (shown below, left). User @Lighterature tweeted several images of food with luxury brands, gaining over 2,000 retweets and 5,700 likes (shown below, right).

Followv @hasanp 17 International students at breakfast LOUIS VUITTON

The meme was covered by Twitter Moments.^[3] In addition to the examples of the meme, Twitter Moments covered some responses to the trend, particularly the idea that international students were rich (examples shown below).

nicsss @nicss_Im Follow Find it so funny when I see tweets about rich international students, cause when I was studying abroad I was probs the only one living off bread and water lool 5:49 PM -3 Apr 2018

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Andrew Rush @ndrewrush Follow What international students eat for dinner ·전

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External References

^[1] Twitter – @eliesaaab

^[2] Twitter – @bengalitrash

^[3] Twitter Moments – What international students are eating is a meme now

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