About
Attractive Convict is an advice animal based on a mugshot of a young woman with captions word playing on her beauty and criminal background, in a similar vein to the advice animal character Ridiculously Photogenic Guy. Prior to becoming an advice animal, the photograph was featured in “sexy mugshot” compilation posts on various websites.
Origin
On July 25th, 2010, Florida resident Meagan Renea McCullough was arrested for driving under the influence. Her mugshot (shown below, left) and arrest information were subsequently uploaded to the arrest record database Arrests.org.[3] On August 9th, 2012, the photograph was included in a compilation of mugshots featuring attractive women on the men’s interest blog The Chive[4] (shown below, right).
On August 13th, the pictures were posted on the Japanese news website Daily News Agency.[7] On August 16th, a “sexy mugshots” gallery was submitted to the /r/pics[6] subreddit, which contained the McCullough picture. On August 26th, the Japanese pop culture blog RocketNews[8] reported that the photographs had been posted on the popular imageboard 2chan. On April 3rd, 2013, Redditor vestra submitted McCullough’s mugshot with the caption “Wanted / In 50 states” (shown below) to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit.[1] Within 48 hours, the post received over 8,800 up votes and 550 comments.
Spread
As of early April 2013, the “Attractive Convict” Quickmeme page hosts at least 230 instances of the series.
The same day, Redditor squirrelbo1 submitted an image macro with the caption “Can I have her / cell number” (shown below, left) to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit.[5] Within 24 hours, the post gained more than 18,000 up votes and 700 comments. Also on April 3rd, 2013, Redditor Skepstar posted an image macro with the caption “I guess it’s true / looks do kill” to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit,[9] accumulating upwards of 5,900 up votes and 175 comments. On April 4th, the viral content site BuzzFeed[2] published a compilation of notable examples from the series.
Notable Examples
As of early April 2013, the “Attractive Convict” Quickmeme[10] page hosts at least 230 instances of the series.
Search Interest
Not available.
External References
[1]Reddit – Attractive Convict
[2]BuzzFeed – Best of Ridiculously Photogenic Convict Meme
[3]Arrests.org – Meagan Mccullough
[4]The Chive – Who knew mugshots could be so attractive
[5]Reddit – For those of you that know Attractive Convict
[6]Reddit – Sexy Mugshots
[7]Daily News Agency – The Cutest Mugshots Ever
[8]Rocketnews24 – Too Cute For Jail?
[9]Reddit – Attractive convict really did it this time
[10]Quickmeme – Attractive Convict