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Courtesy Awkward Family Photos Growing up, I had an irrational fear of becoming a meme. This was in the 2000s—before the word “meme” had truly entered the popular lexicon of the internet-minded, before the “internet-minded” meant everyone. My older sister was an award-winning teenage photographer, and I was her main subject. For a time, I refused to pose because I was afraid of what would happen once she posted the photos online. I feared the snowball effect of an image on the inter...