About

Type Of Girl You Pull When You're Unemployed or the Unemployment Glow is a series of memes that share images of attractive women under captions like, "The type of girl you pull when you're unemployed" and "the type of girl you pull when you don’t have a job." The trend was popularized in July 2025 by X / Twitter user @neet_sol, who posted the earliest known version of the meme on July 2nd, 2025, featuring a photograph of influencer Brooke Flecca smoking a cigarette.

The meme trend continued to spread over the following months, going viral on sites like X, Reddit and Instagram. The memes play off the idea of a perceived phenomenon in which unemployed people become attractive to certain types of women, sometimes referred to as the "unemployment glow," with some suggesting that unemployed people have more time for personal care and grooming, thus making them more physically attractive.

Origin

On July 2nd, 2025, X^[1] user @neet_sol posted a photograph of Brooke Flecca (@bdgrlbklyn) smoking a cigarette on the street, writing, "type of girl you start pulling when you quit your job," garnering over 154,000 likes and 4,400 reposts in just under two months. This is the earliest known example of the meme, which plays off the idea of the "unemployed glow," defined as the perception of someone being more attractive when unemployed.

Spread

The same X user continued to post versions of the meme over the following weeks. For example, on August 3rd, 2025, X^[2] user @neet_sol posted another version of the meme captioned, "Type of girl you pull when you don’t have a job," gaining over 20,000 likes in just over two weeks.

On August 7th, Instagram^[3] user bangerbuddy posted a version of the meme that gained over 176,000 likes in two weeks. Some suspected that the image used is AI-generated, including Redditor u/Intelligent_Till1518, who reposted it to the /r/isthisAI^[4] subreddit on August 9th, garnering over 500 upvotes and 200 comments in just under two weeks.

It was also posted to the /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke^[5] subreddit that day, garnering over 34,000 upvotes in the same span of time.

On August 15th, 2025, X^[6] user @neet_sol posted another version of the meme using another image of Brooke Flecca, garnering over 230,000 likes in six days.

On August 18th, Redditor u/pingpongplaya69420 posted a version of the meme using the Eve and Mr. Handsome format to the /r/memes^[7] subreddit, garnering over 11,000 upvotes in three days.

The post inspired several comments about the "unemployed glow," with Redditor u/GreyWizard1337 offering an explanation of the phenomenon that gained over 700 upvotes in three days, reading:

Yep, I've seen [the unemployed glow] with my brother, who was constantly working his ass off for 10+ years, just to be let off by his new employer after just one year. He's struggling to find a new job for months now, but writing job applications doesn't take 8+ hours a day. So he's got a lot of time now to walk, work out regularly, sleep in and cook healthy. Shit's done wonders for his appearance and he looks younger and happier now.

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