About
Caught Me Sleeping, often intentionally misspelled as “Bae Caught Me Slippin”, are descriptions accompanying photos uploaded to social media websites where the uploader implies that he or she was caught sleeping by their significant other and had their picture taken. After several failed attempts received attention online, they started a photo fad of people taking similar pictures while intentionally making it obvious the pictures are not legit submissions.
Origin
On October 8th, 2012, the Twitter account @NostarndAv tweeted a picture of a header showing a woman taking a picture herself fake sleeping, accompied by the header “Females Be Like “Bae Caught Me Slippin””.[2] As of March 25th, 2013, the tweet has been retweeted 22 times.
FEMALES BE LIKE… twitter.com/Daweeq/status/…
— Daweeq (@NostrandAv) 9 oktober 2012
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On October 9th, the picture was uploaded to image sharing website NoWayGirl,[1] receiving over 130 Facebook likes. On November 26th, Instagram user Jermz_vi posted a picture of himself fake sleeping while the mirror on the background shows he took the picture of himself.[11] Jermz_vi later admitted that he made the picture himself intentionally as a joke. The picture was shared on various sites, most notable Tumblr[9] and Topsy[10] where it received respectively more than 3,100 notes and 5,200 posts as of March 25th, 2013. The picture was also posted on Tumblr by user Amandalynferri[6] on November 29th, 2012, which has received more than 10,500 notes as of the same date.
On November 27th, a Reddit post[7] by redditor iSpellBadly on the r/funny sub-reddit, showing a woman making a picture of herself fake sleeping while unknowingly being busted by the mirror behind her, received more than 16,000 upvotes as of March 25th, 2012. In the days following the Reddit post, the picture was mentioned in various articles and blogs such as CollegeHumor,[8] NoWayGirl,[3] HappyPlace[4] and The Huffington Post.[5].
On March 15th, 2013, Tumblr user Newkidsonmycock11 shared a picture of an asian male taking a fake sleeping picture while the mirror shows he’s holding the phone between his feet (shown below, left).[12] On March 24th Tumblr user Csleb made a post of himself lying on the floor fake sleeping while the mirror shows a Pikachu doll taking the picture (shown below, right).[13] As of March 25th, both posts respectively received more than 10,500 and 11,500 notes.
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External References
[1]NoWayGirl – Females Be Like ‘Babe Caught Me Sleeping’
[2]Twitter – NostarndAv
[3]NoWayGirl – Mirror Fail: Caught Me Sleeping
[4]HappyPlace.com – Woman accidentally captures own loneliness in Twitter photo.
[5]Huffington Post – Babe Caught Her Sleeping: Woman’s Unfortunate Camera Blunder
[6]Tumblr – AmandaLynFerry
[7]Reddit – Babe caught me slippin’
[8]CollegeHumor – Babe Caught Her Sleeping
[9]Tumblr – “Lol, my baby caught me sleeping…she play too much.”
[10]Topsy – Lol my baby caught me sleeping…she play too much
[12]Tumblr – Newkidsonmycock11