Shawn Oakman Cotton Bowl photo
Meme & format · 2015 · Niche
A Cotton Bowl photo became a dialogue meme that fans reused 6 years later.
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- Week of Jan 2, 2015
- Jan 1 ’15 to Week of Jan 2, 2015
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- Origin
- Organic
- Sports
How it spread
Trace the originSam Garrison posted Oakman’s Cotton Bowl photo on January 1, 2015. Users rewrote it as conversations where others backed down. Twitter and Facebook captions drew sports coverage; CFL fans reused the format when Toronto signed him in 2021.
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January 2015
Cotton Bowl broadcast precursor · Jan 1 ’15
The coin-toss broadcast showed Oakman beside Michigan State players before the photo became a meme.[1]
Facebook users platform jump · Jan 1 ’15
Users shared Oakman captions on Facebook as well as Twitter on game day, Bleacher Report later reported.[1]
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