Derploma Guy

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DOWNVOTEDA KITTEN ON THE FRONT PAGE made on imgur

REPLACE A SEMICOLON C) WITH A GREEK QUESTION MARK J IN COWORERS JAVASCRIPT AND WATCHED THEM PULL THEIR HAIR OUT OVER THE SYNTAX ERROR made on imgur

IMGUR WAS OVER CAPACITY DID NOT WAIT A FEW MINUTES TO TRY AGAIN made on imgur

PAPER TOWEL DISPENSER SAYS PULL DOWN WITH BOTH HANDS ONLY USED ONE HAND made on imgur

I WANT TO PRINT A DOCUMENT BUT CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO GET UP WAIT UNTIL MY COLLEAGUE PRINTS SOMETHING SO THEY PICK UP MY STUFF T00 made on imgur

WORK ENDS ATE CLOCK OFF AT 4.59 made on imgur

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About

Derploma Guy, also known as Mischievous Mike, is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a student wearing a mischievous grin at his high school graduation ceremony. The captions typically confess to committing mild indiscretions and telling white lies, in a similar vein to I Too Like to Live Dangerously image macros.

Origin

On June 5th, 2015, Imgur^[1] user DerplomaGuy submitted a photograph of himself wearing a furled upper lip facial expression while holding a diploma at his graduation ceremony (shown below). Within five days, the image received more than one million views, 19,000 points and 600 comments.

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On June 6th, Imgur^[2] user okayyoucanlaughandjokearound posted an edited Javert reaction GIF with the Derploma Guy superimposed over police inspector Javert peering through a window (shown below, left). The same day, the official Imgur^[3] blog published a post about the image macro series titled "DerplomaGuy Takes Over Imgur." Also on June 6th, Imgur^[6] user pintozoz submitted a Derploma Guy image macro mocking a poorly designed update to Imgur's Android mobile operating system application (shown below, right). Within four days, the images gained over 910,000 and 540,000 views respectively. In the coming days, the news sites Metro^[9], The Huffington Post^[10], Elite Daily^[11], Loop^[12] and The Chive^[13] published compilation articles highlighting the advice animal character.