last year, occurred one of the most viral phenomena ever: ”the distracted boyfriend”.
the Image is originally a överdramatiserad genrebild from bildbyrån . But on social media was injected, the overlooked köpebilden with new meaning and spread by the wind and tide without regard to its actual copyright.
the Picture depicts a man in a checkered shirt, with a silly facial expression turns after a woman in the red dress. The man holding hands with a woman who shocked the watching – she assumed to be his girlfriend.
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Scott/status/900367892063162368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fremysmidt%2Fdistracted-boyfriend-meme-in-real-life-ice-cream-photo
https://twitter.com/dracomallfoys/status/899935787227262976
the Boy got burns – of the popular shoes
was Called sexist
this Image has been used as a metaphor for the temptations that steal our attention from what we should really be focusing on. Almost the entire internet was delighted – but the image also created the debate and was called sexist.
https://twitter.com/SadStalinist/status/898833577126789120
Now the composition of the picture and the inherent dynamics appeared somewhere else completely.
It started with Trishna Pema, 16, from Cape town in south Africa, posed for a semesterbild in Venice where she’s eating a gelato with vanilla flavor.
It was her sister who held the camera.
later, When they looked through the images, they discovered something they knew all too well: bildkompositionen from ”The distracted boyfriend”.
the Composition was familiar. Photo: the Twitter. In search of the man in the picture
When the picture was taken, passed a couple in the background –a couple of that did exactly the same facial expression as on the scattered image.
” We immediately saw the similarity between the image and the memet, writing Trishna Pema to Buzzfeed.
She sent the picture in a group chats to their friends and Amahle Mnyamana then laid it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/pjmboothang/status/1015675087901601793
Her post has received hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes and become a private meme.
the Picture was a meta-meme. Photo: the Twitter.
Many are looking for the man in the picture.
” He really deserves appreciation for its ability to ‘photobomba’, type Amahle Mnyamana on Twittter.
