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Overly Attached Girlfriend
or OAG
What does Overly Attached Girlfriend mean?
The Overly Attached Girlfriend meme is used to joke about obsessive, clingy behavior sometimes exhibited by women in relationships. The behavior attributed to Overly Attached Girlfriend is sometimes considered misogynistic and sexist.
Where does Overly Attached Girlfriend come from?
In 2012, Justin Bieber launched a contest to accompany the release of his new fragrance Girlfriend. He challenged fans to rewrite the lyrics to his song 鈥淏oyfriend鈥� from the girlfriend鈥檚 point of view, then upload a video of them singing the song to YouTube.
Laina Morris, then a 20-year-old from Texas, uploaded a video submission for the contest in which she sang about being a clingy girlfriend and smiled a creepy, wide-eyed smile at the camera. The video was soon uploaded to Reddit, and within a day, had accumulated more than one million views. Reddit user yeahhtoast took a screenshot of Morris smiling and captioned it with a joke: 鈥淚 sewed my name on your shirts in case you forget you鈥檙e taken.鈥� The meme took off, and internet users began replacing the text with their own jokes about having a stalker for a girlfriend (e.g., 鈥淛ust because you broke up with me doesn鈥檛 mean I broke up with you鈥� or 鈥淚 recorded you breathing at night and made it my ringtone鈥�). The original video of Morris singing now has more than 18 million views.
Examples of Overly Attached Girlfriend
Who uses Overly Attached Girlfriend?
The OAG meme was most popular in 2012 and 2013, right after the original contest video was uploaded. Users across various social media platforms shared their versions of the meme.
Though in 2013 Morris appeared in late-night comedy sketches and developed a brand relationship with the car company Kia, the meme itself is not as popular today as it once was.
Some Reddit users have criticized the meme as sexist because it perpetuates the stereotype that women are more clingy in relationships than men. As critics point out, a companion meme, the Overly Attached Boyfriend, never gained as much popularity as the OAG because it didn鈥檛 play into the same stereotype.
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