About

Scumbag Steve is an image macro series featuring a kid with a sideways fitted cap standing in a hallway. The overlaid text generally centers around unethical behavior regarding drugs, partying, and other hedonistic behaviors.

Origin

The original image came from the cover of the album o Ma Gangstao [1] by the rap group Beantown Mafia.[2] The first known image macros were posted in a compilation to Reddit[3] in a thread that reached the front page on January 21st, 2011 and received 8,607 up votes prior to being archived. A commenter in the Reddit thread identified the young man in the photo as Blake Boston, also known as o Weezy B.o In an interview with Know Your Meme, Blake revealed that the picture was originally taken by his mother.

Scumbag Hat

Hundreds of image macros have since emerged featuring Scumbag Steveo s trademark hat photoshopped onto other people and objects accompanied by Scumbag Steve style captions. The hat is a New Era Red Sox o A-[size=1em]TOOTH[/size]o brown fitted hat. A similar style with slightly different colors can be found at the Hatland website.[6]

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