About
High School Senior Yearbook Quotes are select quotations that appear below a student’s photograph in the year book for their final year of high school. On the Internet, photographs and scans of prank yearbook quotes are often posted on Internet humor sites.
Origin
The earliest known collection of humorous yearbook quotes posted online was in a compilation of examples highlighted on the online resource site About[5] on December 15th, 1997, according to Google cache.
Spread
On February 8th, 2011, the Internet humor site Smosh[3] posted a series of notable example quotes. On April 30th, 2013, the viral content site BuzzFeed published a compilation of 30 notable yearbook quote photos. On May 30th, 2013, the Internet news site The Daily Dot[2] published an article reporting that a high school senior quoted a tweet from the @horse_ebooks Twitter account in their yearbook (shown below, left). On June 18th, the pop culture blog Hit Fix[4] published an article about a high school student who used elements in the periodic table to quote Notorious B.I.G.’s line “Fuck Bitches Get Money” from the 1995 song “Get Money” by Junior M.A.F.I.A. (shown below, right).
Notable Examples
External References
[1]BuzzFeed – "":http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/inspiring-yearbook-quotes-for-graduating-seniors
[2]The Daily Dot – High School Senior Quotes Horse_eBooks in Yearbook
[3]Smosh – 20 epic yearbook quotes
[4]Hit Fix – Jessica Lee used the periodic table to quote Biggie in her high school yearbooy
[5]About.com – Funny Yearbook Quotes