Hello Internet and welcome to Behind The Meme.
Today we have a look at “The Distracted Boyfriend”
Kids, teens, adults, and yes even hermits, whoever you may be who are watching this video
let me let you in on a secret that’s not so secret.
At one point or another in your life you will more than likely find yourself in love with
somebody, at least that’s what Hollywood has led me to believe.
Honestly I can’t speak from experience unless Palmala Handerson counts as a person but that’s
neither here nor there.
Okay?!
You don’t need to know how I spend my Friday nights!!!
I’ve seen it many times where some of my friends or family end up finding someone that
they absolutely love and adore, I mean they are head over heels for this other person.
Meanwhile, while I honestly can’t understand why or
how.
In my opinion usually their significant other could very well be the spawn of satan!
*Scary Music Plays*
but they stick by their side without budging an inch.
If I’m being honest here it’s usually a guy who is tolerating a very witch-y partner.
Cough cough, by witchy I mean bitchy.
Something tells me that the guys with these types of lady friends only put up with them
because they end up getting kitty-whipped.
Cmon guys, Youtube’s changes have made the jokes on here even harder to come by, so do
the math…”kitty”, kitty is actually supposed to be another 5 letter word that
starts with the letter “P”.
I’d like to buy a vowel.
Bad intercourse jokes aside, I always wonder how these dudes don’t end up getting distracted
and looking for something hotter, more exciting, and just generally better.
Like find yourself that local Lauren Southern looking girl and don’t settle for the plain
jane that treats you bad.
And I know I’m not the only one who feels this way either because that exact scenario
birthed us a meme that perfectly encompasses a guy who wised up and noticed one of the
many more fish in the sea.
But word of advice, if it smells like fish, stay away from that C…
If you know what I mean.
The distracted boyfriend is a stock photo taken by the photographer Antonion Guillem…This
guy, this guy right here!
The photo was originally captioned “Disloyal man walking with his girlfriend and looking
amazed at another seductive girl”, but I personally like to refer to it as “Wise
man realizes his girlfriend ain’t all that and a bag of chips and notices another hot
piece of ass walking past him ” What?
I’m just calling it how I see it.
Oh, that’s right it’s 2017 and the world is mega PC now! my bad…my bad.
The image itself is easily relatable not only because we all have that friend who falls
in love with anything with a pulse, but also because of how quickly we are all guilty of
swapping out the old with the new with virtually anything that has something more modern released
for it.
whether it’s relationships, belief systems, forms of entertainment, technology or even
memes themselves.
Keeping that in mind, it’s not hard to see how this meme has been subject to reimagining,
photoshopping, and remixes.
Since the popularity of the original concept it has been used in a variety of ways that
seem to be better than the previous.With some of the variations remixing the players within
the scenario and making it that much more hilarious in the process.
The picture turned meme has been circulating throughout 2017 but peaked in popularity over
the summer with a version of the meme depicting a scenario involving the solar eclipse.
And In October 2017, a new take on the meme resurfaced with an image that depicted a girlfriend
now being distracted by a bigger and better man walking down the street.
It was submitted to reddit with the caption “The Tables have Turned” and got some
major reddit up-vote treatment over the course of a 24 hour period.
I mean, I can’t blame them either… look at that hunk of a man.
You just know that he has a 6 pack and some firm buns.
You can just tell that if you were laying next to him in bed you would just wake up
in the middle of the night and find yourself in his arms and you would just know that everything
is gonna be fine in life because he is there protecting you.
I just imagine that he smells like old spice, vanilla, hair product or something…cough
cough…uhhhh….I mean…girls…uhh, I like girls.
Yeah!
The original version of this meme got so popular that a few friends even got the awesome idea
to create a costume based on the meme itself.
I mean look at this!
Talk about badass!
So there you have it.
What started off as a stock image from an indie photographers picture story, ended up
getting lots of attention due to it’s easily relatable humor.
But hey, that’s the internet for you and on the internet, memes are king!
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Much love and appreciation!
I’ll catch you beautiful people next time.