Guy in ‘College Freshman’ Meme Now Stars in a New ‘College Senior’ Meme
"Successful College Senior" Meme
He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has made an unexpected and triumphant return to web stardom as a senior this week.
The new image immediately caught the attention of Reddit users, who cleverly wasted no time turning it into a "Successful College Senior" meme. A "Lazy College Senior" meme already exists.
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He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has made an unexpected and triumphant return to web stardom as a senior this week.
Five years ago, a photograph captured University of New Hampshire student Griffin Kiritsy as a seemingly happy-go-lucky freshman. In mid-2011, the image got the familiar white-text-over-photo meme treatment on Quickmeme: “Hangs 20 beer signs in dorm. Only ever tasted Miller Lite.” The “College Freshman” meme has since been whipped into countless variations to poke fun at all things relating to first-year students.
“The worst part is that 90 percent of those memes don’t apply to me,” Kiritsy recently told his school’s student newspaper, The New Hampshire.
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