Overly Attached Girlfriend
Laina Morris staring wide-eyed into her webcam in "JB Fanvideo," uploaded in June 2012 as an entry to a Justin Bieber contest, with the lyrics of "Boyfriend" rewritten into a deliberately clingy declaration of devotion. The performance was a parody, but the stare was so convincing that Reddit turned it into the Overly Attached Girlfriend template the next day. Morris leaned in and built a YouTube channel on the back of it.
