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YouTuber Uploads Bieber Parody
YouTuberJB Fanvideo a webcam video titled “JB Fanvideo”[1] in which she performs a parody rendition of Justin Bieber’s latest single “Boyfriend” with personalized lyrics. -
Overly Attached Girlfriend Appears on Reddit
"Overly Atached Girlfriend" Reddit Redditor yeahhtoast submitted a link to the YouTube video in a thread titled “Overly Attached Girlfriend,”[11] which generated more than 800 comments in the span of seven hours as well as a Quickmeme page[7] for an advice animal character bearing the same name. -
Parody Twitter Created
@AttachedGF Later that same day, a parody Twitter account[8] (@attachedGF) was launched to curate some of the notable captions from the series and a similar single topic Tumblr blog[9] was created on the following day. -
YouTuber acknowledges Meme
via Twitter On June 16th, the description for the “JB fan video” on YouTube was updated with links to her new Twitter[14] account and Facebook[15] page. The same day, Laina published her first tweet acknowledging the video’s success. -
Laina makes CRJ Parody
via YouTube On June 18th, 2012, Walker uploaded a new video to her YouTube channel titled “CRJ Fanvideo”, which featured a parody of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” with clingy and overprotective lyrics similar to the original Justin Bieber video. The same day, Redditor StanFranXisco submitted the parody to the /r/videos subreddit in a post titled “Overly Attached Girlfriend’s Carly Rae Jepsen fan video.” -
Jimmy Tatro uploads OAG Skit
via YouTube On September 24th, YouTuber Jimmy Tatro uploaded a 3-minute skit titled “Breaking Up with Overly Attached Girlfriend” onto his channel LifeAccordingToJim, starring himself and Laina Walker as a couple going through an awkward break-up talk. On the following day, the video was submitted to the /r/videos subreddit, which subsequently reached the front page with more than 9,500 upvotes and 1240 comments. -
Daily Dot names OAG
via The Daily Dot On October 16th, The Daily Dot identified OAG as Laina Morris, after she began creating videos to help charity organizations.
