Overview

Meme Day refers to an annual event started at Olympian High School in California in which students dress up as characters from viral videos and images for a day. After the success of the first day, other high schools took up the practice.

Background

On April 26th, 2017, Twitter user @nicnaastyy, real name Nicole Pinto, tweeted about it being Meme Day at her high school, California's Olympian High School, along with a video showing some of the costumes students at her school wore (shown below). The tweet gained 7,000 retweets and 15,000 likes.

Developments

After the tweet spread, Select All^[1] interviewed Pinto about the day at her school. She clarified that the day was part of her school's annual Spirit Week in which teens dress up in different ways in anticipation of graduation and prom. Included in the article was a tweet from user @alandizn1 (shown below), who went dressed as an Idiot Sandwich, referencing a Gordon Ramsay clip.^[2]

2018 Meme Day

The following year, many more high schools participated in Meme Day and shared their outfits on Twitter. Some popular examples @kamerxn_ tweeted a video compiling outfits from her school, gaining over 39,000 retweets and 87,000 likes (shown below, top). Another popular tweet by @jcortiola gained over 60 retweets and 170 likes (shown below, bottom). Select All^[2] covered the memes posted that year.

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