About
Shoshi Games is an exploitable photoshop meme in which screen shots of Girl’s character Shoshanna (played by actress Zosia Mamet) are put on images of athletes competing in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Origin
The images of Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro come from episodes of the HBO comedy Girls. On February 11th, 2014, the Tumblr Shoshigames[1] was created, which creates and posts the images along with comments written in Shoshanna’s voice such as “Curling? I’ve been doing that since my bat mitzvah.” and “Are we going to a Drybar? #helmethair.”
Spread
On February 12th, the Shoshigames Tumblr started the companion Twitter account [2] @ShoshiGames2014. As of February 13th the account has over 300 followers. The Huffington Post,[3] Mashable,[4] and New York Magazine[5] also covered the meme on February 12th.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
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External References
[1]Tumblr – Shoshi Games
[2]Twitter – ShoshiGames2014
[3]The Huffington Post – Shoshi Games Is Our New Favorite Olympics Meme
[4]Mashable – ‘Shoshi Games 2014’ Tumblr Sends ‘Girls’ to the Olympics
[5]New York Mag – Shoshi Games Takes Girls’ Shoshanna to the Olympics