Airport Snape
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About
Airport Snape, also known as Air Snape, is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of an airline ticket agent resembling the character Severus Snape as portrayed by actor Alan Rickman in the Harry Potter film series. The captions typically feature flight-related jokes containing various references to the fantasy franchise.
Origin
On November 27th, 2012, Redditor mygoodness82 submitted a photograph of a American Airlines employee David Dolci standing at a ticketing counter at the New York La Guardia Airport to the /r/pics[6] subreddit (shown below).
Spread
On December 13th, Redditor Candlegary submitted a Harry Potter-themed captioned version of the image titled "Flying with Air Snape" to the /r/AdviceAnimals[11] subreddit, where it gained over 2,700 votes (96% upvoted) and 290 comments prior to being archived (shown below, left). On the following day, Redditor Corysherpard117 posted another captioned version to /r/AdviceAnimals,[12] referencing Snape's relationship with Harry Potter's father (shown below, right).
That month, the original photograph was reposted on Tumblr,[3] where it garnered more than 146,000 notes over the next three years. On April 23rd, 2013, Redditor XxDailyDreamxX reposted the original photo to /r/funny,[7] where it gathered upwards of 1,600 votes (78% upvoted) and 190 comments prior to being archived. In June 2015, American Airlines posted a photograph to Facebook[9] of Dolci pointing a wand at a young woman wearing a Harry Potter costume (shown below). In the coming days, the news sites People[1] and Metro[10] published articles about the airline ticketing agent.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] People.com – Professor Snape Didn't Die – He Works for American Airlines!
[2] Imgur.com – Professor Snape! I had no idea you actually faked your death and started working for muggle airlines. / Posted: 28 November 2012
[4] Huffington Post – Snape From 'Harry Potter' Now Works For American Airlines Among Common Muggles
[5] MovieMemes.net – Tuesday is Snape Memes Day
[6] Reddit – Professor Snape! I had no iea you actually faked your death
[7] Reddit – Apparently Snape now works at the airport
[8] Tumblr – Sunflowerexistence
[9] Facebook – American Airlines
[10] Metro – Professor Severus Snape discovered working at an airport
[11] Reddit – Flying with Air Snape
[12] Reddit – Air Snape doesnt have time for this
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