When You're at a Sleepover

About

When You're at a Sleepover refers to a series of image macros that caption photographs of humans or animals underneath a variety of objects with some variation of "When you’re at a sleepover and your friend doesn’t give you a blanket."

Origin

The earliest known usage of the meme was posted on August 27th, 2014 by Twitter user @lilnaebossin.^[1] They posted an image of a person sleeping underneath a throw pillow with the caption "When yo friend ain't give you no cover before y'all went to sleep💀💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂😂." The post received more than 7,800 retweets and 4,200 likes in four years.

Spread

Several days later, the iamge was posted on the /r/funny subreddit by Redditor WhatAreHax.^[2] The post received more than 5,000 points (91% upvoted) and 90 comments.

On March 31st, 2015, YouTuber posted a video entitled "When you sleep over your friends house and they don't leave a pillow or blanket." The post received more than 2,900 views in three years (shown below, left).

Several weeks later, Redditor^[3] tooch_my_gooch posted a variation of the meme in the /r/BlackPeopleTwitter subreddit. The post received more than 12,000 points (94% upvoted) and 185 comments in three years (shown below, right).

On March 16th, 2018, Twitter^[4] user @justjamiie tweeted a video of a person blanekting themsevles with the door of a dishwasher. The post received more than 89,000 retweets and 247,000 likes in six months.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References