Scumbag Steve

Origin

The original image came from the cover of the album "Ma Gangsta" [1] by the rap group Beantown Mafia. [2] The first known image macros were posted in a compilation to Reddit [3] in a thread that reached the front page on January 21st, 2011 and received 8,607 up votes prior to being archived. A commenter in the Reddit thread identified the young man in the photo as Blake Boston, also known as "Weezy B." In an interview with Know Your Meme , Blake revealed that the picture was originally taken by his mother.

Spread

The scumbagsteve.com [13] domain was registered on January 27th, 2011. A compilation of Scumbag Steve images were posted to BuzzFeed [14] on February 2nd, 2011. The Daily Mail [15] posted an article about Blake Boston's reaction to becoming Internet famous on February 11th. A Facebook [16] fan page has 13,953 likes, a Quickmeme [20] page has 73,815 submissions and a Meme Generator [21] page has 153,149 submissions as of April 6th, 2012. Other derivatives can be found on Tumblr [17] , Memebase [18] and Funny Junk . [19] The meme was particularly well received by Reddit's /r/trees subreddit, leading to creation of many image macros with references to smoking etiquettes and commonly shared experiences under the influence of cannabis. Blake later confirmed his appreciation of the marijuana enthusiast subreddit, /trees.