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Scumbag Steve

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Blake Boston wearing a tilted cap in a doorway. Caption: Provides unsubscribe link in email / Leads to 404 error — Provides unsubscribe link in email — Leads to 404 error
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Fictional bad-behavior persona, not a factual claim about the person pictured.
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Provides unsubscribe link in email / Leads to 404 error
Depicted: Blake Boston; base photo attributed by KYM to his mother
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Blake Boston wearing a tilted cap in a doorway. Caption: Grandpa gets surgery / Steal pain meds — Grandpa gets surgery — Steal pain meds
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Fictional bad-behavior persona, not a factual claim about the person pictured. Joke about stealing pain medication.
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Grandpa gets surgery / Steal pain meds
Depicted: Blake Boston; base photo attributed by KYM to his mother
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Blake Boston wearing a tilted cap in a doorway. Caption: No bro / It’s spelled liberry — No bro — It’s spelled liberry
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Fictional bad-behavior persona, not a factual claim about the person pictured.
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No bro / It’s spelled liberry
Depicted: Blake Boston; base photo attributed by KYM to his mother
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Blake Boston wearing a tilted cap in a doorway. Caption: Pukes on something / Disappears — Pukes on something — Disappears
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Fictional bad-behavior persona, not a factual claim about the person pictured.
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Pukes on something / Disappears
Depicted: Blake Boston; base photo attributed by KYM to his mother
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Scumbag Steve: “Don’t worry, bro. I’ll pay you / Next week.” — The repayment plan has no calendar
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Nothing in the words explicitly says “never”. The character does the missing work: the promise sounds less like a date and more like the start of another excuse.
Photograph depicts Blake Boston; Know Your Meme credits his mother as photographer.
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Scumbag Steve: “Yo whose house is this? / My bros need directions.” — Your party has acquired a recruitment department
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He does not know whose home he is in, but is already expanding the guest list. The punchline turns his lack of connection to the host into astonishing confidence.
Photograph depicts Blake Boston; Know Your Meme credits his mother as photographer.
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Scumbag Steve: “Hey can I borrow / Everything.” — A small favour, roughly the size of your entire life
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“Borrow” starts as an innocent request. “Everything” removes every sensible limit in one word; the tiny favour has swallowed the whole friendship.
Photograph depicts Blake Boston; Know Your Meme credits his mother as photographer.
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About & sources

A sideways cap and hallway portrait became shorthand for the friend who borrows everything and gives nothing back. Captions build a fictional persona of everyday selfishness.

Date

Photo predates meme; Reddit breakout: January 2011

History

The photo depicts Blake Boston and appeared on a Beantown Mafia album cover. Know Your Meme records a Reddit compilation reaching the front page on January 21, 2011; the character should not be treated as a biography of Boston.

Know Your Meme — Scumbag Steve

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Provides unsubscribe link in email — Leads to 404 error

Grandpa gets surgery — Steal pain meds

No bro — It’s spelled liberry

Pukes on something — Disappears

The repayment plan has no calendar

Your party has acquired a recruitment department

A small favour, roughly the size of your entire life

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