It’s kind of hard to believe that it hasn’t even been a year since the internet gifted us the Distracted Boyfriend meme. The online phenomenon began popping up everywhere in August of 2017, but it hasn’t shown any sign of running out of steam.
Shortly after the meme went viral, internet sleuths attempted to piece together how the couple ended up in such a sad state of affairs by digging up other stock photos featuring the pair. An alternate reality timeline even surfaced in which the roles of the couple were switched.
But because there seems to be no shortage of stock photos in the world featuring the woman in the original meme, writer Ernie Smith has peeled back yet another layer into this fascinating narrative.
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011362138772918272
Specifically, that she is easily shocked while looking at her phone, computer, and tablet screens.
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011362273762402304
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011362356696412166
And she’s just getting started!
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011362572891803649
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011362726243905538
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011363249038688257
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011363510868209665
What could she possibly be looking at? Photos of that no good, dirty dog of a boyfriend of hers cheating on her with the woman in the red shirt, no doubt.
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011363667680661504
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011364099849183234
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011364313607663625
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011364504385609733
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011364723516944384
But like, eventually she’d have to come to terms with the fact that the relationship is over, right?
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011365095018987520
Okay, well maybe not so much.
Inevitably, as the tweets went viral, others jumped in to edit the original meme, because the internet is nothing if not a snake forever eating its own tail.
https://twitter.com/ALT_70V3/status/1011453756318343168
— Noone (@Lifetheuniverce) June 26, 2018
For what it’s worth, the model named Lauren—as photographed by Spanish photographer Antonio Guillem—is very much aware of her memedom. However, we can’t help but think she’d be pleasantly surprised at this latest incarnation.
https://twitter.com/adigaop/status/1011512745785622528
*takes off glasses* IT IS pic.twitter.com/boXquUJ3z1
— Jordan Barden (@JBar_13) June 26, 2018
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