Overly Attached Girlfriend
You might remember it as Laina Morris Girlfriend parody
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2012·The social era·funny
One fixed smile that became the face of every joke about jealousy for a decade.
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What this wasThe story
Laina Morris entered a Justin Bieber contest on 6 June 2012 with a rewritten Girlfriend, sung straight to camera with an unblinking smile, about reading her boyfriend's messages. Reddit found it, it took 170,000 views on the first day, and a single frame of the stare became one of the most-used image macros of the era.
It first appeared in 2012, during the social era. A surviving copy is on YouTube.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
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- What happens
- Laina Morris entered a Justin Bieber contest on 6 June 2012 with a rewritten Girlfriend, sung straight to camera with an unblinking smile, about reading her boyfriend's messages. Reddit found it, it took 170,000 views on the first day, and a single frame of the stare became one of the most-used image macros of the era.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.
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