About
High School Senior Yearbook Quotes are select quotations or mottos chosen by the students of the graduating class to be displayed underneath their photographs in the high school yearbook. On the Internet, scanned images of funny or odd yearbook quotes are shared via social networking and internet humor sites on a regular basis, most notably during May and December at the end of an academic year.
Origin
The earliest known collection of humorous yearbook quotes posted online was in an Angelfire[6] website titled “Weird Yearbook Sayings,” which was created as early as February 2002 according to Google search results.[7]
Spread
On December 9th, 2005, College Humor[9] user Greg uploaded a scan of a high school senior yearbook photo with the quote “So I can write anything here and it’ll be in the yearbook?” (shown below).
On June 3rd, 2006, Military Photos Forums[10] member BadKarma26 created a thread listing examples of humorous yearbook quotes.On November 8th, 2007, Yahoo Answers[11] member Jason submitted a post asking for funny yearbook quote suggestions, to which member jadeesofia replied with a list of 14 different quotes. On August 11th, 2009, the Internet humor site Cracked[12] published an article titled “Yearbooks,” which highlighted a senior yearbook quote with the phrase “I really loved high school, and get erections just by looking in the mirror” (shown below).
On October 15th, 2010, The Huffington Post[8] posted a slideshow of prank senior yearbook quotes. On February 8th, 2011, the Internet humor site Smosh[3] posted a series of notable examples. On April 30th, 2013, the viral content site BuzzFeed published a compilation of 30 notable yearbook quote photos. On May 30th, the Internet news site The Daily Dot[2] published an article reporting that a high school senior quoted a tweet from the @horse_ebooks Twitter account in their yearbook (shown below, left). On June 18th, the pop culture blog Hit Fix[4] published an article about a high school student who used elements from the periodic table to quote Notorious B.I.G.’s line “Fuck Bitches Get Money” in the 1995 rap song “Get Money” by Junior M.A.F.I.A. (shown below, right).
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]BuzzFeed – Inspiring yearbook quotes
[2]The Daily Dot – High School Senior Quotes Horse_eBooks in Yearbook
[3]Smosh – 20 epic yearbook quotes
[4]Hit Fix – Jessica Lee used the periodic table to quote Biggie in her high school yearbooy
[5]About.com – Funny Yearbook Quotes
[6]Angelfire – Weird Yearbook Sayings
[8]The Huffington Post – The Most Ridiculous Senior Yearbook Quotes
[9]College Humor – Enough pictures, who else has a good senior quote
[10]Military Photos – Funny Yearbook Quotes
[11]Yahoo Anwers – What are some good yearbook quotes?