About

Me Anywhere Else is a text-based comparison between the author's feelings of a location as oppose to another. This meme has been popularized through comparisons of work and home, school and home and feelings about one's home-state inside and outside of each respective state.

Origin

The earliest iteration of the format was posted on November 14th, 2011 by Twitter ^[1] user @SirSikora. On that day, he tweeted (shown below), "Me at school: :I Me at home: :( Me anywhere else: :)"

Spread

Three years later, on August 13th, 2014, Twitter^[2] user @lagerthasisgone posted the first variant of "Me Anywhere Else" in references to whole cities (shown below, left).

Days later a series of image macros using the caption "me at work vs me anywhere else," comparing the author's attitude toward work and home. The earliest known iteration of this variation was posted by @EvanTomMartin on August 19th. In this, a picture of Ron Swanson from the television series Parks and Recreation juxtaposed to a picture of Michael Scott of the series The Office_ (shown below, center).

Three years later, on November 19th, 2017 Twitter^[4] user @jordank1230 posted a variation that expresses how he describes his hometown in and outside the state. He tweeted, "me in Maryland: this place is the armpit of America / me anywhere else: l put Old Bay seasoning on EVERYthing. l learned how to pick crabs before l could walk. Our flag is so beautiful. l love the Chesapeake Bay. l have had sex with a blue crab." The post (shown below) received more than 5,500 retweets and 20,000 likes in less than two weeks.

Shortly after the tweet was posted, other users began posting similar comments with their own homes (examples below).

Several media outlets, including BuzzFeed^[5] and Mashable^[6] covered the popularity of this variation.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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