The woman at the centre of one of the internet’s most iconic memes has revealed how the viral moment came to be years after its hilarious inception.
Lucia Gorman, best known as the face of the ‘bored club girl’ meme, was enjoying a night out at the Milk Club in Edinburgh in 2018 when the viral moment unfolded.
She was approached by one of her pals from school who soon began talking into ear amid the seemingly loud music playing around them.
While the lad appears adamant as to the importance of what he has to say, Lucia is seemingly less captivated and can be seen staring straight ahead with a bored look on her face.
Her hilarious reaction was caught by a photographer and has since been shared millions of times, going on to become the ‘most relatable nightclub photo in history’.
Although Lucia can’t remember exactly what the man was saying, she recalls wanting to go home after having her ‘ear chewed off’ for long enough.
‘While it looks really staged, it was completely not and I was so off guard that I don’t even know how to do that face like people do,’ she told JOE.
Now, seven years after the event, Lucia has stepped in front of the camera again to pay tribute to the picture that made her famous.
Lucia Gorman went viral after a photo of her looking bored during a night out in Edinburgh took the internet by storm in September 2018
Although Lucia (pictured) can’t remember exactly what the man in the photo was saying, she recalls wanting to go home after having her ‘ear chewed off’ for long enough
Now, seven years after the event, Lucia has step in front of the camera again to pay tribute to the picture that made her famous
Lucia says she thinks the reason the photo resonated with so many people is because it’s a classic example of ‘mansplaining’.
Lucia added: ‘I feel like a lot of women in the world probably really understand, and whilst he wasn’t being horrible, I think girls in clubs get the brunt of men just explaining things that you don’t need to hear.’
The former business student previously revealed that people used to stare at her in lectures, with some even going so far as to take photos.
She even tried to take ownership of the photo – but learned that the photographer owned the rights and had sold them to Vice, giving her no control over how it’s used.
However, Lucia says the photo, which shows her wearing a red dress and clutching her coat, ‘could be worse’.
She said that she comforts herself with the idea that the ‘internet moves on’.
While Lucia struggles to pull the same face now, she is still keen to meet up with her friend Patrick again so they can recreate the meme in all its mansplaining glory.
‘I find it quite hard to do the like moody, grumpy, uninterested expressions, but maybe I should just get Patrick back in my ear again and we can try to recreate it,’ she told JOE.
Lucia recreated the viral moment with two other women as she joined forces with Samsung to highlight how the company’s new Best Face technology
Lucia also appeared in an updated version of the meme where yet another man seemingly talked her ear off
Lucia has partnered with Samsung to highlight how the company’s new Best Face technology on the new Galaxy A56 5G can help prevent common photo mishaps.
In a survey of 2,000 Brits, blinking (36%), awkward facial expressions when saying ‘cheese’ (26%) and people standing in front of each other (21%) were included the list of most common group photo fails.
The research also revealed half of Brits (50%) admit to taking the time to edit the photos before posting it online and a third would feel slightly comfortable uploading something unedited.
Brits will spend a staggering 35,802 minutes – the equivalent of nearly 25 days of their lifetime – perfecting their online images through editing before posting on their social media profiles.
Those edits come in several forms with Brits revealing they crop parts of the image out (30%) and get rid of unwanted people in the background (24%).
Whilst nearly a quarter remove red-eye or glare from glasses (23%) and get rid of people blinking or chewing (16%).
