About

X Majors When They Realize They Have Y Due At 11:59, also known as X Students When They Realize They Forgot Y or X Students When They Had Y Due At Midnight, is a phrasal template popularized on TikTok in September 2022 that features people making comedic assumptions about a college major or school subject's assignments or requirements. The trend went viral on the platform in the following days as people replaced words used in the recurring captions and created skits parodying various academic focuses in humorous ways.

Origin

On September 10th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @jacobrogotzke posted a video with a text overlay that read, "Culinary students when they forget they had spaghetti due at midnight." The post gathered over 1.9 million plays and over 400,000 likes in nearly 10 days since its upload (seen below).

Spread

On September 12th, 2022, TikToker^[2] @eggboi233 posted a video titled, "Communications majors when they realize they have a conversation due at 11:59." The post gathered over 300,000 plays and 90,000 likes in nearly one week (seen below).

On September 15th, TikToker^[3] @hannah_miller0 posted a video with a text overlay that read, "Exercise majors when they realize they have a push-up due at 11:59pm." The post gathered over 200,000 plays and nearly 20,000 likes in four days (seen below).

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