A Cancer Survivor Became A Meme After People Compared Him To Stephen Curry

Leon Mitchell II / Via instagram.com

Leon Mitchell II / Via instagram.com

Mitchell told BuzzFeed that he was diagnosed in 2005 at the age of 20 and described his diagnosis as a type of “head and neck cancer.”

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2. In December of 2015, people began using a photo of Mitchell on social media with the caption “Meth Curry,” and an unpleasant meme was born.

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3. The meme materialized after people compared Mitchell’s thin neck area with the frail frame of longtime users of methamphetamine, and his resemblance to basketball player Stephen Curry.