Bad Luck Brian

About

          Bad Luck Brian is an image macro series featuring a photo of a blonde teenage boy wearing a plaid sweater vest and braces, accompanied by captions that describe a variety of embarrassing and tragic occurrences. On April 11th, 2012, a Redditor claiming to be Bad Luck Brian attempted to do an AMA thread in the Ask Me Anything subreddit, but the thread was removed. The moderator who removed the post left a lengthy comment explaining why, which received more than 35,000 downvotes, making it one of the most downvoted comments on Reddit of all time. Redditor coyotecarl came back on May 8th with an AMA thread on the Advice Animals subreddit. The post received 24,722 upvotes and 2017 points overall.

 

Origin

          On January 23rd, 2012, the first Quickmeme submission was uploaded with the caption “Takes driving test / gets first DUI”. It was subsequently posted to Reddit where it received less than 5 up votes. Later that day, another macro was posted to Reddit with the caption “Tries to stealthily fart in class / shits” which reached the front page of the /r/adviceanimals subreddit accumulating over 3,300 up votes in less than 2 months.

Spread 

          On January 29th, 2012, a collection of notable examples were posted on the digital marketing blog Twenty Something. On March 12th, the series saw a resurgence in popularity when Redditor Very_Juicy submitted a macro to the /r/adviceanimals subreddit with the caption “Falls asleep in class / wet dream.” Within one week the post had received more than 2,900 up votes.