Were you ever in a situation when your friend just made a dumb decision or said something really stupid in the group chat, but no words seemed to constitute an appropriate response?
I have had a meme folder in my phone for years now. The Tom Cruise laughing shoe meme is my personal favorite to whip out when chatting with my friends. It's got the perfect balance of irony, absurdity, and pop culture reference, and is a great response to someone acting dumb.
Today, we're featuring a selection of reaction memes from the just reaction pics Facebook group for you to save to your meme folders, Pandas. Is your friend acting like an insufferable clown? Let them know it by dropping one of these in the chat!
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How we communicate on the Internet changes at super high speeds. It seems like only yesterday smileys and emojis were the main mode of communication. And those who didn't use them we called boomers. Then GIFs became popular and prompted the subtle art of reacting to what your friends said and did with the right amount of irony and pop culture reference.
Today, emojis and GIFs seem so 2010s, right? So, we send memes to represent our reactions most accurately. That's why groups like just reaction pics can be treasure troves of reaction memes for all occasions: confusion, ridicule, and even feeling emotional about something.
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Reaction memes and images are by no means a new phenomenon. Many credit the facepalm as one of the first reaction faces, and its first recorded instance was apparently in 2004. In 2010, someone created a site MyFaceWhen.com with an array of different reaction pics and GIFs. Similar pages and groups on Tumblr and Facebook followed.
In 2014, New York City's Museum of the Moving Image even had an exhibit dedicated to GIFs. Titled "The Reaction GIF: Moving Image as Gesture," it featured the most popular and most often used reaction GIFs. The curator of the installation even posted a message on Reddit, asking users to share the GIFs they consider to be classics.
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In 2019, The Washington Post attempted to rank the 24 most important viral reactions on the Internet in the past 20 years. And while none of the entries featured clowns (sadly), they did feature some classics. For example, the popcorn meme was in first place, with "This is fine" and the blinking guy meme holding ranks in the top 10.
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