![Map of South America Map of South America](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/028/177/Screen_Shot_2019-01-16_at_9.58.20_AM.jpg)
Map of South America
About
Map of South America refers to the use of an uncolored drawing of South America as a reaction image. The picture spread after a Twitter user evidently meant to post a more traditional reaction image to a joke but instead accidentally inserted a map of South America. This led others to use the picture for surreal shitposts.
Origin
On January 13th, 2019, Twitter user @is_meguca[1] (real name Laina Farthing)[3] posted a map of South America with a joke reading:
me: flirts
me: gets flirted with back
me:
The joke, shown below, gained over 50,000 retweets and 132,000 likes. In a followup tweet, the user explained it was not the image they meant to click and "I've got nothing to promote other than the fact that I'm a dumbass."[2]
![Flirting 氏Waina氏 Follow @is_meguca me: flirts me: gets flirted with back me: 7:02 PM -13 Jan 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/859/17f.png)
Spread
After the tweet spread, others began using the same map of South America as surreal punchlines to jokes. User @GRAVEMINDS posted a joke that gained over 30 retweets and 130 likes (shown below, left). User @houstonoutlaws posted a joke that gained over 20 retweets and 110 likes (shown below, right).
![Pregnant SMASH IS JUST ANOTHER KIRBY @GRAVEMINDS Follow Her: babe I'm pregnant Me: 1:31 AM-14 Jan 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/901/62a.jpg)
![College App rory @houstonoutlaws Followv i have a college app due tomorrow that l haven't even started and I'm like 12:47 PM 14 Jan 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/903/9ee.jpg)
Other jokes include a tweeted clip by @rickanartist of Miles Morales from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse saying "South America," gaining over 2,500 retweets and 15,000 likes (shown below, top) and a Distracted Boyfriend edit tweeted by @dsnywrld422 that gained over 2,300 retweets and 18,000 likes (shown below, bottom).
— rick (@rickanartist) January 14, 2019
![Distracted Poster kelso @dsnywrld422 ( Follow ) Replying to @is_meguca 1:47 AM-14 Jan 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/920/b05.jpg)
The meme was covered by Daily Intelligencer,[3] where editor Ben Williams theorized it grew popular as "first Dada meme. It’s meaninglessness is a satire of meme culture." Daily Intelligencer also interviewed Farthing, who revealed she had meant to post a Surprised Pikachu meme but clicked on the map of South America instead.
Various Examples
![There's This Girl hey so um there's this girl and um](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/905/a99.jpg)
![Is This a Pigeon](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/923/91a.jpg)
![Surprised South America](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/925/136.jpg)
![Boss/crook Lvl 1 crookLvl 35 boss](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/927/ab7.jpg)
![God Said Wanted to go to Heaven What if You ut god said](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/928/22b.jpg)
![Memories of Pikachu](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/449/929/aa5.jpg)
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