About

When It's Career Day refers to an exploitable meme template featuring a student crying at his desk, with a caption that reads "When it's career day and yo dad walk in wit his X." The last part of the sentence is generally substituted for an appropriate career or hobby, with popular examples being "walk in wit his NFT collection," "walk in wit his meme page," or a similar supposedly embarrassing career. The meme has existed in different phrasal templates since at least 2014. The meme is similar to the Year 2023 / Which One Of You Is A Doctor meme.

Origin

Sometime in the year 2014, photographer Stephanie Maze uploaded an image titled, "Young Student Crying in Class," to various stock image sites. The image depicts "Angel Ramos" crying "with frustration as he struggles with learning to read in his first-grade class in the Esperanza Primary School | Location: Esperanza, Puerto Rico."^[1]

On November 15th, 2014, a now-deleted post on Imgur used the above image and added an Impact font caption that read, "When your Dad comes to career day and starts handing out mixtapes" (seen below, left).^[2] On January 6th, 2016, Imgur^[3] page @theminotauro posted a version of the meme that read, "When your dad brings his lawnmower to career day" (seen below, right).

The earliest known meme to use the phrasing "When it's career day and yo dad walk in wit his X" was a December 18th, 2021 tweet^[4] by user @sadcrib, gathering over 12,000 likes in two years (seen below).

Spread

On December 23rd, 2021, Instagram^[5] page @massachusetts_official_ posted a version of the meme that read, "When it's career day and yo dad walk in wit his Irony page." The meme subsequently became the popularly used template for this trend (seen below, left). On February 11, 2023, Instagram^[6] page @yourlordandsaviorpoopjesus posted a version of the meme that read, "When it's career day and yo dad walk in wit his catalytic converters," gathering over 14,000 likes in six months (seen below, right).

On February 25th, Instagram^[7] page @on_a_downward_spiral posted a version of the meme that showed a red sound processor, gathering over 15,000 likes in six months (seen below, left). On July 24th, Twitter^[8] account @spo9globoob posted a version of the meme that read "TEMU code," gathering over 10,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

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