Y Esta Rosa?

About

Y Esta Rosa? refers to an image macro derived from the Mexican tv series La Rosa de Guadalupe, which uses the white rose that appears in the series as a sarcastic meme to demonstrate that any miracle that occurs was the work of the famous white rose of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Origin

La Rosa de Guadalupe^[1] is a Mexican tv series that premiered on the Televisa channel on February 5th, 2008. The show focused on reenactments of social conflicts and life situations where the values ​​of the Catholic religion and devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe influence its solution. At the end of every episode, after the main character becomes aware of the errors in his conduct, a current of air flows around it, the white rose disappears and one of the characters pronounces a moral message to close the chapter. On January 10th, 2013, YouTube^[2] user @EdgarVega151 posted part of an episode of the show that features the end credits (shown below), which garnered over 2.6 million views and 8,600 likes in a decade.

Spread

It's unknown who created the first still image of the Y Esta Rosa? meme, but the earliest post was uploaded on May 8th, 2017, to the_Animo_^[3] website by the user @galaxia. The post (shown below) features a still image of a white rose on a Christian altar paired with the overlay text in Spanish "When you didn't do the homework but the teacher doesn't show up to class." The image received roughly 48 likes and one comment in six years.

The still image of the white rose became a popular image macro on social media, used to demonstrate a miracle that occurred in an unexpected situation. For instance, on March 12th, 2018, Facebook^[4] user posted the still image of the rose paired with the overlay text in Spanish: "Professor, have you read my thesis? – Yes I like it. I think there are no changes, it is already finished." The post (shown below) garnered over 589 likes and 128 shares in five years.

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