About
Trying to Hold a Fart Next to a Cute Girl in Class is a meme based off of an image of a male student in class straining his body to the point where veins start popping out and he looks very uncomfortable. It was first posted on Reddit in 2014.
Origin
Trying to Hold a Fart Next to a Cute Girl in Class was posted to Reddit’s /r/funny subreddit on March 2nd, 2014, the OP choosing to host the image on image hosting service Imgur. It received 1960 points (88% upvoted) prior to archiving.
Spread
The photo has gained large notability around many social networking sites such as Twitter and Instagram, where users often post the picture along with its original caption, or as a Photoshopped version where the student has a red-dyed stereotypical feminist bowl cut and exaggerated makeup, and often a feminism symbol on their chest. This version often has captions such as “When you haven’t accused a man of rape in 8 minutes” or “When all men are pigs and you haven’t told anyone in 8 minutes”.
Other captions used with the original version include “When it’s been 7 minutes and you haven’t told someone you’re vegan”.
Notable Examples
Notable examples include a post by popular Instagram account @Daquan on December 28th, 2015, using the Feminist edition of the meme (source), which had approximately 92.6K likes as of December 28th, 2015 (8:32 PM EST), Twitter account @theLADbible on March 3rd, 2014, using a slightly modified version of the original caption (source), which garnered 2739 retweets and 2877 likes (favorites at the time of the tweet) as of December 28, 2015 (8:32 PM EST), and 9gag post (source) which, as of December 28th, 2015 (8:32 PM EST), has 22,305 points.
Images of notable examples:
Daquan (Instagram):
theLADbible (Twitter):
9gag:
