"Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. “Aggieland take note. ‘@tcollen: OH: “Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people’” was posted on Twitter by Dy-lon the Cylon on October 5, 2014.
The saying wasn’t posted again on Twitter until it went viral in 2019, after “Most of tradition is just peer pressure from dead people” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on February 9, 2019. “Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people called Ancestors” was posted on Twitter by Black Privledge on March 14, 2019.
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Desiree ⎊
@desireeeems
Prof: “culture is peer pressure from dead people.” hahaha whut
11:28 PM · Jan 16, 2012·TweetDeck
Twitter
Dy-lon the Cylon
@dylanbattard
Aggieland take note. “@tcollen: OH: “Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people””
12:55 PM · Oct 5, 2014·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Paul Sadauskas
@TheAmazingRando
“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.”
2:18 PM · Oct 5, 2014·Echofon
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/Alakazing February 9, 2019
Most of tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
Twitter
reddit bot
@thejerrys_bot
Most of tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
10:30 PM · Feb 8, 2019·Jerry’s Retweeter (Posted after the above.—ed.)
Twitter
Black Privledge 🤙🏿
@Kodzeroo
Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people called Ancestors… 🤭🤭
2:47 AM · Mar 14, 2019·Twitter for Android
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/[deleted] April 6, 2019
Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
Facebook
BuzzFeed
April 8, 2019 ·
#10. Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.
Reddit—ShowerThoughtsUL
Posted by u/_fuck_this_shitimout July 10, 2019
Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
Twitter
Truthstream Media
@truthstreamnews
Someone said, “Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.”
8:39 PM · Dec 29, 2020·Twitter Web App
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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