She appears both in and out of character in the clip. On June 6, 2022, Morris uploaded a video celebrating the 10th anniversary of the meme while thanking her fans for support. Morris has cited multiple reasons for the announcement, including depression, stress and mental health. On July 25, 2019, Morris uploaded a video announcing her retirement from YouTube. On May 20, 2015, Delta Air Lines posted a safety video that included OAG and other Internet memes. national anthem in which she is dressed as Uncle Sam and sings about watching you through Skype, Facebook, and Google because she 'cares' but does not mention the current NSA leaking controversy specifically. On June 13, 2013, she uploaded her first political video, a parody of the U.S. On June 6, 2013, she uploaded a video featuring a montage of clips from her past uploads, reactions by viewers, and television appearances, to celebrate the first anniversary of the original OAG video. She continued to bring out new videos every Thursday, often using her signature 'smile'. Morris has also been featured in videos by Shane Dawson, Tyler Oakley and TheBrothersReidell among others, and has been featured in a Teens React by TheFineBros.

' Snapchat,' a parody of ' Blurred Lines,' was uploaded on July 4, 2013. A parody of ' What Makes You Beautiful' by One Direction uploaded on January 14, 2013, was done not as OAG. A parody of Taylor Swift's ' We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' was uploaded on December 17, 2012. Morris has also made videos of Drake's ' The Motto', a lip-synced medley of the 'stalker songs' ' Every Breath You Take' by The Police, ' As Long as You Love Me' by Backstreet Boys, ' Girlfriend' by Avril Lavigne, ' Your Love Is My Drug' by Ke$ha, ' Just Got Started Lovin' You' by James Otto, and ' You Belong with Me' by Taylor Swift.

On June 18, 2012, another video, in which the Overly Attached Girlfriend sang a parody of Carly Rae Jepsen song ' Call Me Maybe', also became very popular. A week after, her subscriber count went up to 605,000 and the views rose to 77,400,000, with the initial JB fan video holding 15,600,000 of those views and her follow-up CRJ fan video holding 18,600,000 views. Exactly a year after the initial JB fan video, Morris had over 595,000 subscribers and 76,500,000 views on YouTube. While some featured the OAG persona, many branched out from the OAG format, including charity fundraising and attempts to interview celebrities on the red carpet at the AMAs. Morris continued to produce further videos, approximately one a week. ĭuring 2021, the still macro image was converted into an NFT and sold by Morris. The image still came from the video and was made into an image macro which also became very popular and spread across many social media websites and was remixed in various ways. Īrising from the success of the video, 'OAG' became an Internet meme that features the image macro of the young woman featured in the video, smiling and staring manically at the camera that has been captioned in a way that portrays her to be a stalker, jealous, or committed to her love interest to an unhealthy degree. Her video was noticed by the social news website reddit and quickly became popular, gaining more than 170,000 views the first day. Her username is still 'wzr0713' officially, but her display name now identifies her as 'Laina'. Popularity Īs of December 2021, her YouTube channel has more than 1.25 million subscribers and more than 161 million views. In April 2021, an image of the Overly Attached Girlfriend was sold as an NFT for $411,000.

Prior to this announcement, she had only posted one video to YouTube in the previous two years. She talked about the depression and anxiety that she experienced off camera. In 2019, Morris announced her departure from YouTube and posted a video on July 24, 2019, detailing that she is no longer going to make videos and is quitting YouTube altogether. The video, which satirized elements of the Bieber song that have been perceived as clingy, featured Morris staring at the camera with a fixed smile while singing about Facebook-stalking her boyfriend and other themes. The video was a submission to a contest held by Justin Bieber who challenged fans to create a 'Girlfriend' counterpart to his hit song ' Boyfriend'. The character was created by Laina Morris (born June 22, 1991). Overly Attached Girlfriend ( OAG) is a fictional character and an Internet meme originating in a YouTube video published on June 6, 2012. Laina's original video that started the Overly Attached Girlfriend character Laina Morris, the 'Overly Attached Girlfriend', posing with Grumpy Cat at the 2014 VidCon in Anaheim, California

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