Scumbag Fat Girl

About

Scumbag Fat Girl (also known as “Fat Girl”) is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a blonde woman wearing the scumbag hat with a purple and blue color wheel background. The captions typically portray the character as the smug and judgemental female counterpart to the Butthurt Dweller advice animal series.

Origin

According to Google cached results, a page titled “Fat Girl” was created on the image macro website Meme Generator^[1] as early as February 24th, 2010, with the first instance containing the caption “She told me I was fat / so I ate her” (shown below, left). The original image macro template featured a photo of a blonde woman with a purple and blue color wheel without the Scumbag Hat exploitable added on. On March 31st, 2011, FunnyJunk^[3] user shadythomas uploaded a compilation of notable examples in a post titled “Scumbag fatgirl”, which included a new version of the template with the superimposed scumbag hat (shown below, right).

Spread

On January 3rd, 2012, 9gag^[2] user r31m0 published an image macro titled “Scumbag Fat Girl”, which featured the caption “Made you a sandwich / ate it” (shown below, left). On January 31st, the “Scumbag Fat Girl” Quickmeme^[8] page was created. On May 3rd, Redditor Black_Unicorn submitted an example with the caption “Goes to the grocery story / takes the last handicap scooter” (shown below, right) to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[4] subreddit, which received over 3,500 up votes and 340 comments within three months.

On August 5th, Redditor jlo47 submitted an image macro with the caption “’Don’t judge me for who I am on the outisde’ / ‘OMFG I hate those skinny bitches’”^[6] (shown below, left). On the same day, Redditor unhOLINess submitted a post titled “Reddit, this ‘scumbag fat girl’ fest seems a little one sided. I present: scumbag fat guy”^[7], which included a male version of the meme with the caption “Wants a girl who sees him for his personality / if she’s hot” (shown below, right). Within 24 hours, the post received over 19,000 up votes and 1000 comments.

On August 6th, Body Building Forums^[10] member RichStrong posted a compilation of image macros from the series in a post titled “Misc, this scumbag fat girl meme is too ****iing hilarious.” As of August 6th, 2012, the “Fat Girl” Meme Generator page has received over 13,000 submissions and the “Scumbag Fat Girl” Quickmeme page has accumulated over 700 submissions.