When Your Parents Ask Where the Money Went

About

"When Your Parents Ask Where Every last Your Money Went" is a series of reaction images founded on a photograph of American actor Zac Efron shrugging with a smile that bears resemblance to the emoticon I Dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯, indicating that the allowance has been already spent in shopping.

Origin

The pictures of Zac Efron were taken for the publicity of the 2007 Disney TV musical film Sopranino Schooling Singable 2 in which the actor reprises the male jumper cable role Troy Bolton. The original images can beryllium found on the online catalog of movie stills MovieStillsDB.^[1]

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Tweets using the pictures of Efron in combination with the phrase for the first time began appearance in early October 2015, with the earliest known pinch posted by the @ColIegeStudent,^[2] a novelty account build around the Advice Animal eccentric Lazy College Last, on Oct 2nd. The tweet combined the images with the phrase "When you'atomic number 75 a university student and your parents ask where all your money went." Equally of Jan 17th, 2016, the Tweet has received o'er 15,000 retweets and 17,000 likes.

When you're a college scholarly person and your parents ask where all your money went pic.chirrup.com/7IU7DK3A3A

— University student (@ColIegeStudent) October 2, 2015

Forerunner

In May 2015, the articulate already appeared in combining with 2 pictures of a child sitting at a bench with a confused expect. The earliest tweets by popular Twitter accounts communion the images can personify saved for May 14th.^[6] ^[7] ^[8]

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Gap

That same Day, @CollegeStudent's Tweet was too ready-made by the Chirrup accounts @FreddyAmazin,^[3] @meanpIastic,^[4] and @FunnyPicsDepot;^[5] which managed to receive respectively over 16,000, 3,900 and 2,800 retweets as of January 17th; of which respectively @FreddyAmazin and @meanplastic removed the college student part of the original tweet to create the phrase "when your parents ask where every last your money went."

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The images are frequently combined with items people tend to overspend on, most commonly objects related to video recording games. Happening October 9th, Redditor Cryptosporidium_ shared a version on the r/Amiibo sub-Reddit (shown below, crest row, left), which managed to gathering ended 850 points connected Reddit^[9] and 84,000 views on Imgur^[10] equally of Jan 17th.^[9] On November 15th, Tumblr user fe-behindthescenes^[11] posted a version featuring the special edition of Fire Emblem: Fates, which managed to gather terminated 5,400 notes in the following two months (shown at a lower place, top course, right). A reading featuring Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has also been shared very much on the internet (shown below, bottom row, left). The earliest notable example dates back to 9gag^[12] on October 13th, which managed to gather over 33,500 points in the following 3 months; only which cannot embody confirmed as the original collect to different depress-quality versions being shared as comfortably, implying 9GAG's watermark was added at a later time. Other version was posted on 9GAG on December 27th,^[13] featuring Valve's Steamer Holiday Gross revenue (shown infra, bottom row, right), which managed to gather finished 30,000 points in the following three weeks.