Meme lore
What is the Raise Your Hand If You’ve Ever Been Personally Victimized meme?
This reaction image depicts the classroom moment in Mean Girls when Regina George’s teacher asks students to raise their hands if they have ever felt personally victimized by Regina. Because almost everyone raises a hand, the template is used to frame a person, product, habit, or situation as a universally recognized source of frustration.
Origin & history
The scene is from the North Shore High School classroom sequence in Mean Girls (2004), in which the students collectively respond to a question about being personally victimized by Regina George. The exact point at which the still became a standardized meme template is unclear, but its visual meaning is well established: nearly everyone has the same complaint.
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