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Yare Yare… School Is Such a Drag for 2 Otakus Like Us is a redraw meme format based on an image of two boys dramatically posing back-to-back in front of a school window behind the caption, "yare yare… school is such a drag for 2 otakus like us 🥀." The original image was posted by TikToker @bigisabono.2 on May 8th, 2025, and spread over the following months to sites including Instagram and X / Twitter, inspiring redraws that replace the boys with characters from various fandoms. The meme's caption begins with the term "yare yare," a Japanese phrase used to express frustration, comparable to the English phrase, "good grief."

Origin

On May 8th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @bigisabono.2 posted an image macro consisting of a photo of two male students sitting dramatically, back-to-back in front of a window with their hands or arms covering their faces, behind the on-image caption, "yare yare… school is such a drag for 2 otakus like us 🥀." The post gained over 3.5 million views in six months.

Spread

The image of the two boys sitting back-to-back in the window spread over the following months, inspiring redraws.

On May 9th, 2025, Instagram^[2] user uncrustamemes reposted it, garnering over 553,000 likes in six months. On May 12th, X^[3] user @shunhashimoto posted a redraw of the meme that replaces the boys with characters from The Hundred Line, garnering over 2,800 likes in six months. This is the earliest known redraw of the meme.

On May 29th, the official Instagram^[4] account of Cool Math Games (@coolmathgames) posted a version of the meme redrawing the men as the characters from the Flash game Fireboy and Watergirl, garnering over 50,000 likes in six months.

On November 9th, 2025, X^[5] user @ssyyk1sk posted a redraw of the meme referencing the video game Deltarune, drawing the men as Kris and Susie, garnering over 48,000 likes and 6,800 reposts in a day.

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