Brendan Fraser's Alimony / Just Fuck My Shit Up

About

Brendan Fraser’s Alimony refers to a series of jokes on various imageboards about American actor Brendan Fraser’s alimony payments, which mock the actor’s mental health with speculation that he is depressed and suicidal. The jokes are sometimes accompanied by an edited photo of Fraser with the dentist Gino DiGiannantonio’s hair from The Barber image macro series and the phrase “Just fuck my shit up.” The jokes also derived into a movement to help Fraser and revive his actor career.

Origin

On December 27th, 2007, Brendan Fraser announced that he and his wife Afton Smith were getting a divorce after nine years of marriage.^[4] In early 2013, Fraser petitioned the courts for a reduction of his alimony, asserting he was unable to meet the annual obligation of $900,000.^[1] On February 16th, 2015, a thread featuring an edited picture of Fraser with DiGiannantonio’s hair and the post “I-is he gonna make it?” was submited on 4chan’s /tv/ board.^[5] The image was originally made by the Tumblr user stargates on December 10th and 12th, 2014.^[12]^[13]

Spread

The phrase “Just fuck my shit up” has been used as a forum game on 4chan, with one poster starting with “JUST” and others trying to follow in a combo, in a similar vein to Lankyposting. On April 11th, 2015, the board /just/ was created on 8chan^[3] for Brendan Fraser-related posts. On March 30th, 2015, YouTuber Beavan Cotterhill uploaded a video titled “Latest Brendan Fraser 2015 #savebrendanfraser #unfuckhisshit”, featuring a song about Fraser and promoting the hastags #savebrendanfraser^[8] and #unfuckhisshit (shown below, left).^[9] The next day, the @SaveBrendanFraser Twitter account was launched, which highlights edited photos of Fraser.^[7] On April 3rd, 2015, YouTuber Justin Cuck uploaded a video titled “Just Fuck My Shit Up – Help to save Brendan Fraser’s career”, featuring footage of Fraser with the song “Bring Me Back To Life” playing in the background. On April 17th, Redditor PointOfRecklessness submitted a post asking about the Fraser meme to the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[11] subreddit. The meme continues to be a popular topic on /tv/, with users discussing plans to revive Fraser’s career and “un-fuck his shit”.