Your Favorite Student

About

Your Favorite Student refers to an autobiographical comic published by artist Erin Basca (@rubodubo) on X / Twitter in early July 2024. The comic tells Basca's personal story of getting groomed by a professor at her university, with Basca eventually coming to a realization of what has been happening and reporting the professor. In early July 2024, the opening panel of the comic, depicting portraits of Basca and her professor and captioned "Your Favorite Student," achieved virality as an exploitable meme format amid the wave of trauma dump comics on X.

Origin

On July 1st, 2024, X^[1] user @rubodubo (artist Erin Basca) posted an autobiographical comic titled "Your Favorite Student." The opening panel of the comic depicts the portraits of Basca and her professor in a style reminiscent of The Muppets. The 20-panel comic relays a story of Basca bonding with a professor at her university over art, only for the professor to take advantage of the relationship with his student and cross the line by getting personal, such as venting to her about his wife, making sexual jokes and showing unreciprocated signs of affection.

The last part of the comic shows Basca filing a sexual harassment report against the professor and breaking away from the relationship. The opening post of the thread (shown below, left; panels shown below, center and right) received over 30,000 reposts and 276,000 likes in two days.

Spread

Similar to recent autobiographical trauma dumping comics such as I Might Go Homeless? and I Forgot You Were a Man, "Your Favorite Student" became a subject of various memes shortly after it was shared online. Most notably, the opening panel of the comic gained popularity as an exploitable, with users replacing the portraits and editing the title.

For example, on July 1st, 2024, X^[2] user @BellowTheMenace posted a Skibidi Toilet edit that received over 110 reposts and 1,600 likes in two days (shown below, left). On July 2nd, X^[3] user @DimitriMonroeZ posted a Blue Archive edit that garnered over 200 reposts and 2,200 likes in one day (shown below, right).

The antagonist comic has been used in memes in conjunction with antagonists of other recent similar works. For example, on July 2nd, 2024, X^[4] user @aerosolkid posted an I'm Putting Together a Team meme (shown below) that received over 60 reposts and 440 likes in one day (shown below).

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