About

Bus Stop Grim Reaper, also known as Bus Stop Ringwraith, is an image macro series featuring a photograph of a person wearing a Lord of the Rings Nazgûl standing next to a man wearing a baseball cap, which is often captioned with mock conversations as if the personification of Death is threatening the man's life.

Origin

On March 22nd, 2017, a photograph of a man talking to a person in a Nazgûl costume was uploaded to 9gag^[6] with the prompt "What did he said to death?" (shown below). Within one week, the post garnered upwards of 9,300 points and 760 comments.

Spread

On March 23rd, 2017, Twitter user @youngscrap^[1] posted the photograph captioned with a joke about the man's daughter swearing on his life that "she only fucked 4 dudes" (shown below, left). That day, Twitter user @leansquad^[2] posted the photo captioned with a joke about the man swearing he is "dead" when looking at internet memes (shown below, right). Shortly after, the @daquan^[3] Instagram feed reposted the tweet, garnering more than 376,000 likes within four days.

On March 24th, Redditor Benny_Andretti submitted a screenshot of @youngscrap's tweet to /r/BlackPeopleTwitter,^[4] where it gathered upwards of 29,300 points (91% upvoted) and 290 comments within 72 hours. Meanwhile, The Observer^[5] highlighted several notable examples from the image macro series in an "listicle": titled "Why the Grim Reaper Is the Best Meme of 2017."

Various Examples

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