Wojak Trying to Sleep

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About

Wojak Trying to Sleep refers to a series of memes depicting a Wojak, Zoomer or another character being prevented from sleeping by a loud noise outside the window. Originating from the 30-Year-Old Boomer memes, the format gained notable popularity in edits on YouTube.

Origin

The exact author of the image is unknown. On June 25th, 2018, a number of 4chan users posted the image on /v/, /pol/, /int/ and other boards, with the earliest post containing the image made by an anonymous /v/ user (image shown below).^[1]

In the following days, humorous posts imagining dialogues between a 30-Year-Old Boomer mowing a lawn early in the morning and his Zoomer son were posted across a number of 4chan boards (examples shown below), with the earliest such post made by an anonymous /v/ user on June 25th (shown below, left).^[2]^[3]^[4]

Spread

On June 26th, 2018, YouTuber kenny lauderdale posted a video titled "That 30 Year Old Boomer who still watches anime on VHS" based on the image, with the video receiving over 34,000 views in 18 months (shown below, left).^[5] On June 27th, YouTuber 30 year old boomer posted an edit which gained over 243,000 views in the same period (shown below, right).^[6]

In the following months, more versions of the meme were posted on YouTube, including notable memes by users Free Qunicy^[7] (July 2nd, 2018; 122,400 views) and Prince of Zimbabwe^[8] (September 12th, 2018; 667,000 views) (shown below, left and right).

On July 22nd, 2019, YouTube user NerdAwakens posted a notable American Dad edit of the video which gained over 1.4 million views in five months (shown below).^[9]