The same day, Laina published her first tweet acknowledging the video's success:. I'm always amused by the OvrlyAttachdGF tweets. Then I realize my face is associated with it and I'm slightly disturbed. Still awesome. On the Facebook page, Laina uploaded several photographs of herself shown below and urged fans to follow her on Twitter since she would be updating the Facebook page less frequently.
Within three days, Walker accumulated over 7, new Twitter followers and 16, likes on Facebook. Laina has denied that Walker is her last name. Spin-off attempts at creating a male counterpart character began on June 7th, the day after the upload of the "Girlfriend" fan video, with a Reddit post titled "Overly Attached Boyfriend" featuring a photo of a man staring creepily at the camera.
One of the top voted comments was submitted by Redditor HertzaHaeon, which linked to a photoshopped "couple shot" image and an "obligatory" faceswap image featuring Laina and her male doppleganger. Later that same day, the Internet news site Daily Dot [20] posted an article titled "Meet the Overly Attached Boyfriend Meme," detailing the development of the meme in a chronological order.
On July 7th, a single topic blog titled Overly Attached Boyfriend [25] was launched by Internet humor network Memesly and numerous image macros from the original Reddit thread were featured by BuzzFeed [23] and FunnyJunk.
In the interview, the high school senior student from Arizona revealed that he decided to submit the post onto Reddit "after a little confidence boost from a friend. Within two days, the post received over 6, up votes and comments. That day, 17 other "Misunderstood Girlfriend" image macros were submitted to the subreddit [28] , four of which received enough up votes to reach the front page. On September 5th, the Tumblr [30] blog Pleated Jeans highlighted several notable examples in a post that received over 6, notes within 24 hours.
The same day, additional compilations were reblogged on the Internet humor site Joes Daily [32] and the tech news blog Mashable. The series bears many thematic similarities with the Good Girl Gina advice animal character, which features a stock photograph of a young brunette woman with captions depicting her as an altruistic mate. Within 24 hours, the post received over 5, up votes. Within the first week of upload, the YouTube clip accumulated more than 6. The antithetical character of Overly Attached Girlfriend has been brought up as early as July 4th, with a Reddit post [35] renaming Scumbag Steve 's female counterpart Scumbag Stacy as the "Underly Attached Girlfriend.
So instead, she tried studied education at the University of North Texas, and while the fame was a blessing for her — it was also a terrifying experience. As interest in the OAG gained momentum, the small-town girl became a brand that led to various media requests and even imitators. It was a picture of her when she was around 11 years old. She had her hair in pigtails, a hideous vest, and an "ermahgerd" expression. The now year-old, who works as a nurse in Phoenix, said while she was quite overwhelmed by her memes at first, the interest has died down — unless one of her friend wants to dig up old favourites.
But I guess you have to take what you can get. But this didn't stop Morris deciding to forge a YouTube career on the back of her meme status and becoming a YouTuber. Interestingly and probably unsurprisingly, she struggled to deal with her newly cultivated internet persona.
Overly Attached Girlfriend. Morris felt and continues to feel detached from the meme, seeing it as an external entity. Shortly after the meme blew up, Morris quit her job and dropped out of school to become a full-time YouTuber, even investing in professional management. Unlike the stereotype of multi-millionaire YouTubers , Morris is not a millionaire. But when you're feeling good, it can be really scary because you don't know how long that feeling will last.
When you start to feel bad again, it can be scary because you thought you had gotten over it. Like, I get it. I know how hard it is. Morris also encouraged anyone struggling with mental-health issues like anxiety or depression to reach out for help and to find acceptance through the process because "at the end of the day, you are alone with you and your own thoughts, and you need to love yourself.
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