About
Shoulder Cookie is just that — putting a cookie on one’s shoulder and trying to eat it. It is inspired by the above picture, which has been circling the internet since 2007.
Origin
The first instance of the photo was posted on a Russian message board on December 19, 2007. That same day, it was also posted on a thread at Otvali.ru.
On December 25, 2007, it was posted to the Russian blog “Sex Fun Warez” for the first time in a funny photo thread. This time, the picture appeared with a watermark for SwTeam.info, another Russian site.
The picture appeared on Funnyjunk.com for the first time on April 11th, 2008.
It was posted on English speaking lol wow! on June 2nd, 2008.
It is still unknown who the girl in the photograph is or why there is a cookie on her shoulder. Despite its popularity on Russian blogs, the American flag in the background most likely makes the location in the United States. Her shirt looks like it could say Harnett, which could possibly narrow down the location further to Harnett County, North Carolina.
Spread
On April 27th, 2009, the picture was posted on the blogShouldercookie.com with the following post:
Shoulder Cookie! C’mere!
Hey girl… need help with your cookie? Are you all happy you have one? Are you all sad you can’t get to it? Don’t worry girl… you have another one on the other shoulder.
The site encouraged users to take pictures of themselves with cookies on their shoulders as well to submit to the blog.
Two days later on April 29th, 2009, a Facebook page for Shoulder Cookie was created. A few hours later, the owner posted a link to a Digg page for the main blog, which only got 14 Diggs.
The original post on Tumblr only had 4 reblogs and 3 likes. Despite this, the blog caught on. In June 2009, the blog was linked on BuzzFeed. On August 31, 2009, the blog was named Tumblr of the Day at Eat Me Daily.