About
Musically Oblivious 8th Grader (also abbreviated as “MO8G”) featuring a photo of a young girl with captions that are blatantly misinformed about a well-known artist, band or a song. The top caption introduces the name of the band, artist or song and the bottom caption implies one’s complete lack of knowledge about music in similar vein to Idiot Nerd Girl or Technologically Impaired Duck.Origin
Musically Oblivious 8th Grader was created by Grace Spelman[1], who posted it to her since-deleted Tumblr in 2009. Spelman used a photo of her friend and fellow Tumblr user[15] Emilie Ferreira[9] from her eighth grade graduation. Spelman initially shared the photos on Tumblr to exchange jokes about music theory with her group of friends. After the template was uploaded to Memegenerator[2], more captions about popular bands or performers started appearing. The first instance uploaded on the site commented on the Icelandic singer Björk[10], confusing her with the Swedish Chef[11] from The Muppet Show.
