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Jersey Shore as Movies refers to a series of jokes made on Twitter in which screenshots from the television show Jersey Shore are paired with movie titles, making it appear as thought he Jersey Shore screenshot is from the film it's paired with.

Origin

On December 17th, 2016, Twitter user @jbiebstampon^[5] posted a screenshot of a letter Snooki was writing to fellow cast member Sammi Sweetheart and captioned it "Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)" (shown below). The tweet gained 341 retweets and 524 likes.

On December 20th, they began pairing movie titles with Jersey Shore screenshots, starting with The Notebook.^[6]

Spread

Several other variations followed in the coming week, reaching widespread appeal on December 31st, 2016, when Twitter user @sinamonnroll^[1] posted a tweet that read "Jersey shore as movies (a thread)." He then followed it with dozens of posts of screenshots of Jersey Shore paired with movie titles (ex: shown below). His original tweet gained over 5,000 retweets and 6,500 likes as of January 3rd, 2017.

@sinamonnroll's tweets were very popular, with many gaining thousands of retweets and likes. spizalert^[3] of /r/memeeconomy suggested investing in the memes that day. @sinamonnroll's tweets also inspired several other posters to make their own variations with popular films. One of the most popular shows the men of Jersey Shore walking in black tank tops, captioned "Reservoir Dogs (1992)" (shown below).

New York Magazine's SelectAll^[4] covered the spread of the jokes on January 3rd. @sinnamonroll's tweets were also compiled by Twitter Moments^[2] on January 3rd.

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