Remember the viral "Distracted Boyfriend" meme?; Apparently, it resembles a scene from a 1922 Charlie Chaplin short film, as copywriter Peter Goldberg pointed out on Twitter. The scene, which is ...

But the distracted boyfriend meme is easy to grasp; all you have to do is look at it. The earliest known version of the distracted boyfriend meme was shared on a Turkish Facebook group page about ...

The Meme Documentation Tumblr—yes, there is one, and you should follow it—traces "distracted boyfriend" back to the above late-January post in a Turkish Facebook group devoted to prog rock ...

When the "distracted boyfriend" meme started to gather steam, he didn't think much of it. It's not even one of his most popular photos. Guillem says the photo is purchased around 700 times a year, ...

Saying that Charlie Chaplin invented the "distracted boyfriend" meme is a bit of a stretch, but an early version of the viral image can be spotted in the 1922 short film "Pay Day." ...

By the summer, the photo had emerged as the year’s most ubiquitous and adaptable meme. By October, Distracted Boyfriend—as the man in the photo quickly came to be known—was a costume for ...

Little did I know that what I’d stumbled upon was the meme of the summer, commonly referred to online as “distracted boyfriend.” I’d soon be seeing that same stock-image photo ...

The Popular Distracted Boyfriend Meme Is ‘Objectifying,’ Swedish Ad Court Rules. 3 minute read. By Melissa Locker. September 26, 2018 11:21 AM EDT.

When one Reddit user found out he resembled a popular (and super creepy) meme, he embraced the comparison and became the Overly Attached Boyfriend. Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit ...

The Distracted Boyfriend meme is so 2017. (And besides, a Swedish court found it sexist anyway.) Happily, there’s a homoerotic version that’s even funnier. Meet Distracted Groom.

It’s been used to dissect trends in popular culture, wade into political disputes and comment on the fickle nature of human relationships, but the popular “distracted boyfriend” meme is ...