Scumbag Girl / Scumbag Stacy

Editor’s note: For more information, visit KYM Forum Thread – Office of Cease & Desist Records.

About

Scumbag Girl, also referred to as “Scumbag Stacy” and “Scumbag Girlfriend”, is an Advice Animal style image macro series featuring a photo of a scantily clad young woman posing in a bedroom. The overlaid text typically consists of unethical, selfish and sadistic behaviors that are meant to represent the female counterpart toScumbag Steve.

Origin

The origin of the photo of the girl comes from a post on the single topic blog HottestGirlsOnCampus, entitled “North Carolina Hat Girl”^[1], posted on the 26th of January 2011. Soon afterwards, the subject of the photograph was identified as a winner of CollegeHumor’s “Hottest College Girl” contest in 2007.^[9]

Spread

Following the post on the HottestGirlsOnCampus, the photo of the hat girl has been used as an avatar in adult dating sites and was posted in various forums. The photo has also being used as an advertisement for the adult dating site Fling^[2].

A Scumbag Girl Quickmeme page was created on April 2011^[3]. The first thread on the r/adviceanimals^[4] subreddit was posted on the 14th of April 2011 titled “Introducing:Scumbag Girlfriend”.

Meme generators for Scumbag Girl can be found on QuickMeme^[5] and DIYLOL^[6].

Derivative: Cool Chick Carol

Similar to the Good Guy Greg series that was created as the polar opposite of Scumbag Steve, Cool Chick Carol is the polar opposite of Scumbag Girl. The photo originates from a post titled “Destination Playstation 2009” on February 26th, 2009 from the Spanish videogaming blog Bitgame^[7]. Derivatives can be found on Quickmeme.^[8]