--- title: Drake Face on Handicap Wheelchair Signs in Toronto for Degrassi Meme description: Toronto resident hopes to remind us of Drake's Degrassi roots by putting images of his face on wheelchair signs canonical: https://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-11T20:31:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:08.449Z og:title: The Latest Trend in Toronto Is Putting Drake's Face on Wheelchair Signs og:description: A tribute to his beloved 'Degrassi' character og:url: https://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Latest Trend in Toronto Is Putting Drake's Face on Wheelchair Signs twitter:description: A tribute to his beloved 'Degrassi' character twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Newest Drake Meme Shows That He Can Never Escape His True Identity as Jimmy From _Degrassi_ 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/"},"headline":"The Newest Drake Meme Shows That He Can Never Escape His True Identity as Jimmy From Degrassi","datePublished":"2014-09-11T20:31:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:08.449Z","description":"It's all taking place in Toronto","url":"https://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Canada","Toronto","Drake","memes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/","name":"The Newest Drake Meme Shows That He Can Never Escape His True Identity as Jimmy From Degrassi"}}]}] ```