Mom Fucking Child Boy
Rounak Wetzel
Where the Fuck My Child Support? refers to a series of memes in which a woman demands various characters to pay her child support, with the characters proceeding to flee or disappear in a humorous manner. Originating from a Where Is Waldo? meme, the format gained notable popularity in September 2020.
The exact origin of the meme is unknown. On March 30th, 2010, entertainment website JoyReactor[1] made the earliest found repost of the original meme (shown below). In the meme, a woman demands the protagonist of Where Is Waldo? (Where Is Wally?) children book series Waldo to pay her child support. The last panel shows the signature search puzzle, with Waldo being hidden in large crowd of people, as if avoiding his obligations to the woman.
Chaplin's next conquest took place during a time when his routine at parties was to "imitate the manner in which the leading ladies of the day might experience orgasm," Ackroyd writes. It was with an even younger starlet, the 16-year-old Mildred Harris, who soon informed him she was pregnant with his child. Spooked both at the prospect of domestic responsibility and of a scandal, Chaplin arranged a marriage, which took place in October 1918. It turned out the pregnancy was a false alarm, or a trick. Very soon, according to Ackroyd, Chaplin started to regret all of it: He thought Harris had bamboozled him into marriage and found her embarrassing, a bad actress, and "no mental heavyweight." He would be short and moody with her, often leaving home for days at a time without telling her where he was going. After she truly became pregnant with his child, she had a nervous breakdown, due in part to his mistreatment.
In 1920, the same year he and Harris went through a bitter divorce, Chaplin met the 12-year-old who would become his next wife, Lillita MacMurray, who later went by the professional name of Lita Grey. Although Chaplin admired Grey (even commissioning a portrait of her), he held off on pursuing her until she was a more appropriate 16 years old and playing a small role in his 1924 film The Gold Rush. She, too, became pregnant out of wedlock; Chaplin, spooked this time by the prospect of criminal charges, secretly married her in November 1924. She had two of his children before they divorced, amidst affairs and the failure of her career, in 1927.
But back to the women: As they say, the fourth time's the charm. In 1943, amidst criticism from the US government for (allegedly) both pro-war and pro-communist sympathizing, Chaplin wedded another much-younger woman, the Irish playwright Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona. Oona was 18; Chaplin, 54; Eugene, the same age, was so furious that he disinherited Oona (though they had a tumultuous relationship anyway). Despite widespread criticism, however, the marriage lasted until Chaplin's death, resulted in eight children, and was described as one of "true happiness."
This assessment is often trotted out in biographies, an attempt to depict Chaplin as a womanizer-turned-wholesome-husband; he was always preciously looking to his young wife for her opinion or help, both on set and in life! While this may be true, their marriage was also plagued by Chaplin's exacting standards, outbursts, raging temper, and cruelty towards his children. According to Jane Scovell's Oona: Living in the Shadows, the actress Joan Collins said that O'Neill "catered" to her fatherly husband with "an almost geishalike deference." And according to Marlon Brando's autobiography, Chaplin treated Sydney, one of the sons he fathered with Grey, "cruelly." When Brando and Sydney, also an actor, worked with Chaplin on the 1967 film A Countess from Hong Kong, Brando writes that Chaplin humiliated his son in front of Brando and the rest of the cast; Sydney told Brando that his father "treated all his children this way." Brando was also on the receiving end of Chaplin's ire. "In front of the whole cast Chaplin berated me, embarrassing me, telling me that I had no sense of professional ethics and that I was a disgrace to my profession," Brando wrote. His mistake? Arriving on set 15 minutes late.