Meme lore
What is the Bad Luck Brian meme?
Bad Luck Brian is a classic Advice Animal template built around an awkward school portrait of a smiling, braces-wearing teenager. The usual format places a setup or seemingly positive event at the top and an embarrassing, disastrous, or unexpectedly unlucky consequence at the bottom.
Origin & history
The template uses a school portrait showing Kyle Craven in a plaid sweater vest, smiling with visible braces. Internet users turned the awkward expression into a recurring character whose apparent good fortune is immediately undercut by an ironic failure or humiliating outcome. Specific details about the earliest reposts are unclear, but the format is strongly associated with the early-2010s Advice Animals era.
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