Sheer boredom is how online trends are born, and this latest one is no different. Dubbed, the Money Face challenge, this particular one involves people aligning their faces with the faces printed on currency, and it's hilarious.
Redditor Fouad_Osama was sitting in his car on Tuesday, bored to death. So, as a joke, he decided to fold a $5 bill in half and attempt to match his face with Abraham Lincoln's in a photo. Not only did it work, but his facial structure and beard makes the photo eerily apt. His post on Reddit has since received over 6,000 upvotes, prompting other users to post their own Money Face efforts, and thus began the latest social media trend. The thread has even spun off into a new subreddit r/OnTheMoney, and contributors show no signs of slowing down.
Of course, this is more of a resurgence than an origin story. The original Money Face was actually posted way back in 2008, by a forum user Spunky McPunk. Another photo received similar infamy when it was posted the next year, but it was only in December of 2009 that the trend really took off. It eventually died down, resurfacing again in 2011 for a while, before people moved on completely. Internet fads are like fashion in that way - nothing popular ever truly dies out, it just comes back in renewed force years later..
