"New York" on a Bed

About

“New York” on a Bed refers to a reaction image used to illustrate feelings of impatience or latent rage. The image features “New York,” a.k.a. 2000’s reality television star Tiffany Pollard, sitting on a bed, fully clothed, wearing sunglasses an an annoyed expression. It is often distributed as accompaniment to That Feel When style posts.

Origin

“New York” is the nickname of Tiffany Pollard, a contestant in both the first and second seasons of the 2006-2007 VH1 reality television show Flavor of Love.^[1] The show was a matchmaking show featuring the eccentric rapper Flava Flav, and was well-known for the humorousness of the settings and outrageousness of the characters. New York, who was one of the most outspoken and controversial characters, was later featured in several spinoff series because of her immense popularity.^[2] This freeze-frame most likely came from the first season of Flava of Love.

Spread

On May 7th, 2015, Twitter user MikeShotya posted the New York on a bed screenshot along with the caption “When everyone you chilling with ordered food but you broke so you gotta act like you not hungry.”^[3] As of November 10th, 2015, the tweet has received almost 4,000 retweets and more than 3,800 likes. On May 13th, user Eyeemoji posted the same screenshot with the caption “when your friends force you to go somewhere you didn’t want to so you purposely drown the room in negative energy,” which received 92 retweets and 142 favorites.^[4] The image continued to spread on Twitter, and was also featured in the popular subreddit /r/blackpeopletwitter on several occasions.^[5][6] On May 21st, Buzzfeed published an article entitled “The “New York” On A Bed Meme Is The Only Meme You Need This Summer” with over twenty more options for captions to accompany the photo, and including a screenshot of Eyeemoji’s original tweet.^[7]

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