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# The Newest Drake Meme Shows That He Can Never Escape His True Identity as Jimmy From _Degrassi_

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by 

[Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/)


## Samantha Grossman


Sep 11, 2014 8:31 PM UTC

by 

[Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/)


## Samantha Grossman


Sep 11, 2014 8:31 PM UTC

Sometimes, we all lose sight of the fight that before Drake was Drake, he was Aubrey Graham, a young actor on the Canadian teen drama series _Degrassi_.

Well, one Toronto resident is hoping to remind us of Drake’s roots by plastering pictures of his face on handicapped wheelchair signs around the city. (Drake, of course, played Jimmy, who was in a wheelchair after a shooting left him paralyzed from the waist down.)

Behold:

Behind this trend — simply called “draking” — is journalist and blogger Lauren O’Neil. She [told ](http://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/someone-has-been-putting-drakes-face-on-wheelchair-signs#vzcml4)BuzzFeed that she and her boyfriend saw an accessibility sign on the subway recently and the idea just kind of came to them. Soon, they began “draking” all over town. “We just want to make people smile,” she said.

Man, that’s kind of a bummer. We were secretly hoping this was a viral campaign for some kind of _Degrassi_ revival.

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