The metaphor isn’t particularly complicated: the guy represents “you,” the girl walking by represents a distraction or a mistake or something better, and the girlfriend represents what you should be ...

If you spend too much online, you’re probably familiar with the “distracted boyfriend” meme. It shows a man checking out a woman on the street while his partner looks on in disgust. Meme makers ...

The stock image called “Man Looking at Other Woman” by photographer Antonio Guillem was named meme of the year and was one of the most widely shared memes in 2017. But now, the meme, which is better ...

The distracted boyfriend meme — that image in which a man checks out one woman while holding hands with another — gained popularity last summer, used to explain moral dilemmas like choosing between ...

“The advertisement objectifies women,” said Sweden’s advertising ombudsman about an ad that used the distracted boyfriend meme A stock photo of a distracted boyfriend turning away from his annoyed ...

If you’ve been on the internet at all in the past several months, you’ve probably seen some version of the “Distracted Boyfriend” meme. You know, the one where a couple is walking together, a woman ...

Halloween costumes based on internet memes are a great idea because you get to (a) spend the entire evening explaining your costume to normal people who don’t spend all of their waking hours online, ...

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One of the most popular memes of recent times is sexist, according to Sweden's advertising watchdog. A Swedish Internet company named Banhof jumped on the bandwagon by sharing the viral "distracted ...

If you’ve spent any time on the internet over the past year or so, you’ve probably come across the “distracted boyfriend” meme, a humorous appropriation of a stock photo, that a Swedish court recently ...

It's not clear whether the creators of the photograph that became the meme knew this. Charlie Chaplin is often described as an actor who was well ahead of his time, but was he so far ahead as to ...