This meme all started out on YouTube. Laina Morris, also known as Overly Attached Girlfriend, made a parody video\u00a0of a Justin Bieber song named \u201cBoyfriend\u201d. She sang the song from the perspective of a stalker girlfriend, and uploaded the entire thing to YouTube. An image from that video would quickly be known as Overly Attached Girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As these things go on the internet, loads of people instantly started digging through her personal life, even going as far as messaging her real-life friends. Ironic how her acting like a stalker girlfriend turned her into a victim of cyber stalking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luckily for Laina, she kept her cool and kept on making videos. She managed to quit her day job and provide a steady income with nothing but making YouTube videos, which seems like a better job than whatever you and me are doing. She plans to keep her channel going for as long as she can, and we hope she can keep it up for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBad Luck Brian<\/strong> Apparently Kyle took the picture in a joke, however. Kyle had a goof where he\u2019d rub his face to make it red, squint his eyes, puff out his jaw and hope for the funniest picture possible. I\u2019m pretty sure he never expected to become a meme, but he\u2019s taken his internet fame like a champ!<\/p>\n\n\n Success Kid<\/strong> When Sammy was in elementary school, his dad was fighting a very vicious case of liver failure. He\u2019d been struggling for years, requiring a dialysis almost on a daily basis. The popularity of the meme brought loads of attention to their GoFundMe campaign, allowing them to collect the $100,000 required to fund the treatment for Sammy\u2019s dad. I guess Sammy is a success kid in real life too.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hipster Barista<\/strong> He thinks it\u2019s \u201cdiscouraging and disappointing\u201d that people mock baristas through his meme where we seem to applaud craft beer, cocktail makers and farm-to-table food. All David really wants is for people who put a milky leaf on top of coffee drinks to be taken seriously. And I\u2019m pretty sure all their parents want is for them to stop being baristas and get a real job.<\/p>\n\n\n Doge<\/strong> Kabosu wasn\u2019t one of the killed ones \u2013 luckily \u2013 and was adopted in 2008 by a Japanese family that gave her all the love a good doggo deserves. The particular \u201cDoge\u201d picture was posted on the owner\u2019s blog in 2010. Senior Freshman<\/strong> Nola is currently the world record holder as the oldest college graduate, and she even started working on her PhD credit after obtaining her master\u2019s degree. Sadly, Nola\u2019s amazing story wasn\u2019t meant to last particularly long. She passed away in December 2016, aged 105. She claimed and proved that it\u2019s never too late to chase your dreams, and I think that\u2019s a valuable lesson we can all learn from Nola\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n Star Wars Kid<\/strong> The then 14-year old Ghyslain Raza was bullied online and had his footage used in many parody videos \u2013 they even inserted him into Star Wars scenes and did spoofs of him in American Dad and South Park. Ghyslain got so low he had to leave school for a while. He now is an avid campaigner against cyber bullying, being on of its first serious victims.<\/p>\n\n\n Memes are one of the pillars of today\u2019s society. It\u2019s hard to imagine life without them, as they seem to capture everyday situations so well and the rate at which they spread is probably the best example of why the internet really does bring us all closer together. Most memes you\u2019ve seen dozens of times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We\u2019ve all seen the picture of this kid that\u2019s posing for a school picture and looks like he\u2019s been screwed over by pretty much everything in life, including genetics. His clothing is awful, he looks weird, he has braces, his eyes look shifty and he has that fashionable 90\u2019s haircut all the kids had back in the day. Kyle Craven \u2013 Bad Luck Brian in real life \u2013 had this yearbook picture of him posted by a friend and became a meme almost overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img-cdn.brainberries.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/real-stories-real-memes-02.jpg\")
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There\u2019s really no need for a motivational coach if you\u2019ve heard of the Success Kid meme. There\u2019s so much power that goes with the body language of the toddler in that image. Born as Sammy Griner, Success Kid has become the symbol of motivation for an entire generation of people. While the picture itself doesn\u2019t have a story attached to it, the aftermath has a story that\u2019ll melt your heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img-cdn.brainberries.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/real-stories-real-memes-03.jpg\")
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David Mattson \u2013 Hipster Barista for people that live on the internet \u2013 is one of the very few meme celebrities who actually *is* his meme. He works as a barista and sounds like one of the biggest hipsters you can imagine. This also obviously means that he hates being a meme, because memes are mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img-cdn.brainberries.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/real-stories-real-memes-04.jpg\")
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The Shiba Inu dog that later became known to the world as Doge, was named Kabosu (not to be confused with Kabuto, the Pok\u00e9mon) before her days as internet celebrity. Kabosu was born in a puppy mill, which was closed shortly after her birth. She and the 19 other dogs were put in a dog shelter, where most were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meme reached such heights that they even created a cryptocurrency called Dogecoin, which had a market value of $400 million and more. If that doesn\u2019t convince you that dogs are man\u2019s best friend, I\u2019m not sure anything can.<\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img-cdn.brainberries.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/real-stories-real-memes-05.jpg\")
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We all remember the meme about the elderly lady in the college classroom. This wasn\u2019t a staged picture \u2013 Nola Ochs did in fact attend college at the ripe age of 94. She attended Fort Hays State University together with her granddaughter, Alexandra. They both graduated as bachelors at the age of 97 and 21 respectively, and Nola even gained her Master of Liberal studies degree the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img-cdn.brainberries.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/real-stories-real-memes-06.jpg\")
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The greatest Jedi Master to ever live and grace the wonderful world of YouTube, Star Wars Kid reached instant fame because of his \u2013 somewhat amateuristic \u2013 video of him pretending to be a Jedi and doing some lightsaber flicks. His movements were erratic at best and his physique didn\u2019t make them any more graceful either, but the guy sure had a lot of enthusiasm. But the footage of his Jedi moves were actually uploaded without his permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/img-cdn.brainberries.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/real-stories-real-memes-07.jpg\")
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