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Justin Bieber's Butt Photo refers to a photograph of pop star Justin Bieber in which he is shown standing in front of the ocean while completely nude. After being shared on Instagram in July 2015, photoshopped variations of the image were widely circulated across the web.

Origin

On July 6th, 2015, Bieber uploaded a photograph of himself standing nude on a boat while vacationing in Bora Bora, in which his buttocks are prominently exposed in the frame (shown below). In the first 14 hours, the post gained over 1.6 million likes and 486,000 comments on Instagram.^[1]

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That day, the @turnaroundjustin^[2] Instagram feed was launched, which highlights photoshopped variations of the Bieber photo. Also on July 6th, pop star Miley Cyrus posted a cropped close-up image of Bieber's butt on her Instagram feed,^[5] where it received upwards of 299,000 likes and 16,000 comments in 12 hours (shown below).

On July 7th, the @BiebsNetwork^[3] Twitter account posted a photoshopped version of the photo in which Bieber's buttocks are enlarged to resemble Kim Kardashian's Paper Magazine cover (shown below). Within eight hours, the tweet garnered more than 630 retweets and 85 favorites. The same day, Redditor raginpsycho submitted the original photo to the /r/gayporn^[4] subreddit. In the coming days, several news site published articles about the photoshop meme, including The Daily What,^[6] The Daily Mail,^[7] MTV,^[8] NY Mag,^[9] Billboard^[10] and Noisey.^[11]

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