Food
The permanent baker
One successful bake becomes a recurring job.
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- The downside of the win
- Great cake. Now every birthday is mine.
Suffering From Success Meme Template
The format
What does Suffering from Success mean?
Also called DJ Khaled Suffering from Success · Suffering from Success Album Cover
DJ Khaled rests his head in his hand on the Suffering from Success album cover. Caption a win that creates a new, slightly ridiculous problem.
The complaint must depend on something going well. Being asked to bake every birthday cake after making one good cake fits; simply having a bad day does not explain the album title.
The image can make fun of a humblebrag or admit that a good result brought extra work. Name both the success and its inconvenience so the title completes the joke.
Origin
An album title becomes a complaint about good fortune.
The image is the cover of DJ Khaled’s 2013 album Suffering from Success. The standard and deluxe covers were revealed on July 31, and the album was released on October 22. Khaled’s tired pose and visible jewelry give the title its visual contrast. [1]
Know Your Meme records a Tumblr caption by milesupshur, posted before August 23, 2015, about a popular post overwhelming the author’s notifications. It also documents examples in 2017 and wider Reddit use during 2018. [1]
How the meme spread
The album covers are revealed
The same portrait appears on the standard and deluxe editions. [1]
Suffering from Success is released
The title printed on the cover later serves as the meme’s punchline. [1]
A Tumblr caption makes success inconvenient
A documented milesupshur post jokes about too many notifications after a popular post. The exact posting date is not established. [1]
Caption guide
Make the problem a consequence of the win.
Use the narrow open area on the left for the complaint. Keep the face, hand, and printed album title visible; the title already supplies the response.
If the sentence is too long, shorten the setup or use the editor’s Header option to add space above the image. The complaint should still make sense as a downside of success.
- The downside of the win
- In the open area on the left, above the album title.
- Name the good result and the extra burden it creates.
- Keep the inconvenience small enough for the grand title to feel excessive.
- Leave the album title readable.
- Avoid a generic complaint with no success behind it.
Suffering from Success examples
Original captions to try with this template.
Everyday life
A prize to transport
The prize is good news until the winner has to get it home.
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- The downside of the win
- Won a sofa. No car.
School
A popular document
Useful work creates more requests for the person who made it.
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- The downside of the win
- Great notes. Twenty requests for copies.
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Sources1 reference
References for this template. Example captions are original.
- Suffering from Success: Know Your Meme
Dates the album artwork and release, and documents the early Tumblr caption and later spread.