Emotionally: I'm Done, Mentally: I'm Drained

Submission 5,049

About

Emotionally: I'm Done, Mentally: I'm Drained is a four-panel exploitable of a man looking forlorn and then, in the last panel, he is smiling. These photographs are captioned, respectively: "Emotionally, I'm done; Mentally: I'm drained; Spiritually: I feel dead; Physically: I smile." The final panel features a punchline for a humorous or absurd effect.

Origin

On June 2nd, 2014, Instagram ^[1] user @rahbanks posted the original four-panel image macro. The post received more than 75 likes in less than six years (shown below).

Precursor

The phrase has been a viral quote since as early as 2012, when it was posted by Blogspot^[2] user vchambem on January 10th, 2012, the earliest available usage of the quote. On May 25th, 2015, Facebook ^[3] user TheRelationshipMemes posted the quote. The post received more than 2,400 likes, 560 shares and 50 comments in less than five years (shown below).

Spread

On May 24th, 2015, Instagram^[4] user @petty_nwa_ shared the image.

On December 1st, 2018, Twitter ^[3] user @fuckin_yeehaw tweeted a deep-fried version of the image with the final panel reading, "Online I Yeehaw." The post received more than 250 likes and 100 retweets in less than one year (shown below, left).

On January 22nd, 2019, Redditor ^[5] Parzival3402 shared the image on the /r/im14andthisisdeep subreddit.

On March 25th, a Redditor^[6] shared a version that features a lyric by the rapper Young Thug in the /r/teenagersnew subreddit (shown below, center).

Later that year, Facebook^[7] user brokeniqqasociety shared a popular variant of the meme in which the final panel reads "Online Im racist." The post received more than 715 reactions, 565 shares and 85 comments (shown below, right).