When I Was A Young Boy

Meme
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See Also:	Fall Out Boy Song Title Meme
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When I Was A Young Boy is a text-based lyric meme inspired by My Chemical Romance's 2006 song "Welcome to the Black Parade" from the album The Black Parade. Entries in the meme typically start with the line "When I was a young boy..." but end the sentence in a novel way.

A number of MCR lyrics have been turned into memes, but "When I was a young boy" appears to be the most popular (or at least it has the highest number of examples still findable online in 2016).

Examples

• entry, ^{Archived version} by averagefairy, 21 December 2012
• when I was…. a young snoy (snail boy)… my snather (snail father)…. took me into the snity (snail city), ^{Archived version} crossover with sneme (snail meme)
• tumblr screencap of a single-use twitter account, ^{Archived version}
• tumblr screencap of a Youtube comment, ^{Archived version}
• tumblr screencap of a twitter exchange between Gerard Way and a memer, ^{Archived version}
• i'm fairly certain ur just mad because ur father never took u into the city to see a marching band (direct link) pinterest screencap of a tumblr reblog
• entry by 80sfrank using a Gerard tweet, ^{Archived version}, 21 December 2014
• If you look on my resume, you'll notice that when I was a young boy, I was asked to join the black parade, image macro found on pinterest