About
It’s a Metaphor refers to a photo meme inspired by a scene from the 2014 teen drama The Fault in Our Stars. The meme involves
Origin
On April 13th, 2014, a clip from the teen drama The Fault in Our Stars was played at the MTV Movie Awards. The film is an adaptation of the John Green young adult novel[1] which was released on The clip features Gus, a teenager at a cancer support group, puts a cigarette in his mouth in the company of Hazel Grace, a teenager with lung cancer. When Hazel expresses digust that he would smoke, Gus explains:
“It’s a metaphor see. You put the thing that does the killing right between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you.
The clip was uploaded to Mega Trailers’ YouTube channel[2] on April 14th. In less than a week the video gained over 270,000 views.