![Over-Educated Problems Over-Educated Problems](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/010/499/over-educated-problems-meme.jpg)
Over-Educated Problems
Part of a series on First World Problems. [View Related Entries]
About
Over-Educated Problems is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of a man glumly looking out a window on to a rainy street. As a spin-off of the First World Problems series, the captions typically include frustrations associated with being "too well educated" compared to one's peers.
Origin
The original image comes from a stock photograph titled "Sad Man And Rain" (shown below, left), which is available for download on the royalty free stock photo website Public Domain Pictures.[1] On June 4th, 2012, Redditor RPShep submitted a post titled "Over-Educated Problems"[2], which featured the stock image captioned with "Don't know whether to use correct pronunciation / or common pronunciation" (shown below, right). Within three days, the post received over 16,800 upvotes and 1,650 comments.
![656.png](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/322/094/656.png)
![39c.jpg DONTIKNOW WHETHERTOUSE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OR COMMONPRONUNCIATION quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/321/992/39c.jpg)
Spread
On June 5th, 2012, the men's humor blog Guyism[5] published a post titled "New Meme You Should Know: Over-Educated Problems", which featured a slideshow of notable examples from the series. On June 6th, NeoGAF[4] forums member shanshan310 posted several image macro examples in a thread titled "Pics that make you laugh." On June 7th, the Internet humor site Tickld[8] posted an image macro with the caption "I have a large vocabulary / that I can't use around my half-retarded friends" (shown below, left). The same day, Redditor greekish submitted a post titled "How I feel about the over educated problems meme"[7], which featured a Matrix Morpheus image macro with the caption "What if I told you / you won't think you're so smart after college" (shown below, right). The meme has continued to spread on sites like Pinterest[3] and Tumblr[6] under the tag "#over-educated problems" and the Quickmeme page for "Over Educated Problems" has accumulated more than 2,000 image macro submissions, as of January 2013.
![f3b.jpg HAVEA LARGE VOCABULARY THATI CANTUSEAROUND MY HALF-RETARDED FRIENDS](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/322/099/f3b.jpg)
![8db.png WHAT IFI TOLD YOU YOU WON'T THINK YOU'RE SO SMART AFTER COLLEGE quickmeme.comm](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/322/104/8db.png)
Notable Examples
![18c.jpg AMSOMUCHSMARTER THAN MY MANAGER AT STARBUCks quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/321/989/18c.jpg)
![Conversation DONT KNOW WHETHER TOCORRECT THE COMMONMISCONCEPTION OR BE ALLOWED TOSTAY IN THE CONVERSATION quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/321/996/fea.jpg)
![Inaccurate OREALLY WANT TOENIO BUT IT ISSO SCIENTIFICALLY INACCURATE quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/321/993/ee0.jpg)
![d30.jpg IGNORANCEIS BLISS FOUND THAOUTTHE HARD WAY quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/322/049/d30.jpg)
![Kwason WANT TOSAY KWA-SON BUT DHAVE TOSAY 'KRUSS-ONT. quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/322/048/5c7.jpg)
![But... words only mean what people use them for MYGRIENDS KEEP SAYING THEORY WHEN THEY SHOULD SAy "HYPOTHESIS quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/322/019/c96.jpg)
![Condescending or pedantic? DONTKNOWWHETHEROSHOULDBE CONDESCENDING OR JUST PEDANTIC quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/322/001/a96.jpg)
![*painful twitch* UINTENSIVE PURPOSES DEAR GOD, PLEASE KILL ME quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/322/051/514.jpg)
![6df.jpg RREGARDLESS IS NOTAWORD quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/322/027/6df.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Public Domain Pictures β Sad Man And Rain
[2] Reddit β Over-Educated Problems
[3] Pinterest β Over-Educated Problems
[4] Neogaf β Pics that make you laugh
[5] Guyism β New Meme You Should Know Over-Educated Problems
[6] Tumblr β over-educated problems
[7] Reddit β How I feel about the over educated problems meme
[8] Tickld β Over-educated problems
[9] Quickmeme β Over Educated Problems
Top Comments
CitizenJim
Jun 07, 2012 at 10:56PM EDT
Reticent
Jun 07, 2012 at 09:11PM EDT