Cheating in Class

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About

Cheating in Class is an exploitable comic series featuring a young student standing at a chalkboard completing a math problem who sees a fellow student holding up a sign with the answer.

Origin

The original strip was uploaded by the webcomic artist Cutbu on May 21st, 2016 on their personal Facebook page.^[8] The strip features a student attempting to solve a sum as he sees a classmate holding a sign with "the answer written on it, leading him to draw the classmate along with the answer (shown below).

Spread

On June 7th, 2017, FunnyJunk^[4] user snifflingcroissant submitted an edit of the comic in which the sign includes the word Star Wars written on it, leading him to correctly finish the math problem (shown below).

On June 15th, 2017, Redditor Oswald1337 reposted the comic to /r/StarWars, where it gained over 13,900 points (89% upvoted) and 370 comments within four months. On September 7th, Redditor Brominarium posted a "2 Genders" version of the comic to /r/dankmemes,^[7] where it received more than 6,600 points and 70 comments over the next month (shown below, left). The following day, Redditor -Kaptain- posted a Bush did 9/11 comic to /r/dankmemes.^[2] The following day, the comic reached the front page of /r/SubredditSimulator.^[3]

On September 10th, the Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash Facebook^[1] page posted a You Are Already Dead variation of the comic, which gathered upwards of 9,600 shares and 5,500 reactions of the next month (shown below, left). On October 5th, Redditor alittlesedated submitted a version of the meme in which the student writes a lemniscate symbol on the chalkboard after seeing a sign with "How much u love your girl" written on the front. Within two weeks, the post received more than 12,600 points (85% upvoted) and 270 comments on /r/wholesomememes^[6] (shown below).