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Disaster girl. From an article on the first quarter of the 21st century.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/27/the-sight-of-it-is-still-shocking-46-photos-that-tell-the-story-of-the-century-so-far

The concept of a meme as a self-replicating nugget of information was first popularised by Richard Dawkins in the 1970s in the context of genetics. But it was in this century that memes took off online, and became household names.

This image, declared “one of the most famous memes in history”, has humble origins. In 2005, Zoë Roth, AKA “Disaster Girl”, and her amateur photographer father were watching a local fire department training exercise, in which a donated house had been set on fire. Her father told her to smile and snapped the image. Drawn to the “evil” smile, people Photoshopped in other disasters – the Titanic, the Hindenburg. FB