The “slap heard around the world” at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony involving Will Smith and Chris Rock onstage on the Dolby Theater has turn out to be meme-ified in a matter of mere hours.
The 94th Academy Awards had a very viral moment the place Smith — who received later that night the Oscar for Best Actor — went up onstage and smacked the soul out of Rock after the latter made an ill-advised hair joke in regards to the winner’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Just as Rock’s joke was being carried out to a shocked viewers, Smith shouted on the presenter, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!”
But alas, regardless of that act of savagery being performed out for tens of millions of viewers to look at on Sunday night, the Twitter world had its fill of memes in regards to the trending moment.
Here are the most effective tweets and memes in regards to the smackdown.
A shot of Oscar nominee Nicole Kidman made headlines, showing her shocked face throughout a separate phase on the present. While the Aussie actress wasn’t precisely displaying her “surprised Pikachu face” to Smith and Rock’s altercation through the dwell telecast, Twitter determined to make use of the picture to explain the battle despite her expression happening well before the showdown.


Others had been amused by the expression Lupita Nyong’o, who was sitting behind Smith, made through the fracas.
“We are all Lupita,” one quipped.
We are all Lupita. #Oscarspic.twitter.com/sPsy3jCu5C
— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) March 28, 2022
LUPITA IN THE BEHIND WILL SMITH IS KILLING ME #AcademyAwardspic.twitter.com/BtITt6SC4R
— matt murdocks gf ♡ (@omgmattmurdock) March 28, 2022
One consumer tweeted a cartoon pic of Batman shanking Robin throughout his face alongside a photograph of the 2 embattled actors. “We can now replace the Batman meme with Will Smiths,” he wrote.
We can now substitute the Batman meme with Will Smiths pic.twitter.com/UZJsOjoxP3
— Charlie Brown (@MiSt3rBr0wN) March 28, 2022
Someone else added, “The Pursuit of Slappyness #Oscars.” The joke referenced the “Miami” singer’s 2008 movie, “The Pursuit of Happiness.”
“Will just Kanye’d the Oscars omg,” one other simply stated. Kanye West infamously crashed Taylor Swift’s 2009 VMA speech and ran up onstage similar to Smith did to Rock yesterday.
Many memes within the Twitterverse shared a collage of the astounded Oscars audience members and stars from the 2017 Oscars — proper when the drama “Greenbook” was introduced for Best Picture as a substitute of the true winner, “Moonlight.”
One viewer posted the picture and quipped, “All of us watching what just went down between Will, Chris and Jada: #Oscars.”
All of us watching what simply went down between Will, Chris and Jada: #Oscarspic.twitter.com/g34XV10SV7
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) March 28, 2022
Alongside the same image, a fan penned, “Everyone at the Oscars when Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock on national television #Oscars.”
One individual scribed, “I will pay up to $1 million in Kohl’s Cash for a leaked recording of the audio from the stage management team’s walkie-talkies.”
Another viewer posted a photo of Smith’s character from “Men In Black” in his darkish go well with and reminiscence eraser, quipping that following the Oscars drama, he would erase the minds of everybody who watched his snafu.
Will Smith after #TheOscars Drama pic.twitter.com/x6Amhs85xD
— Muwanguzi Jordan (@MuwanguziJorda1) March 28, 2022
One meme that was shared on social media confirmed a screenshot of the slap and in huge inexperienced letters “Everybody Hates Chris,” directly referencing Rock’s old sitcom of the identical identify.
Nah will smith and Chris rock received me dying rn😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/l1LRHI1K8Z
— Olivier (@TheOfficalOP) March 28, 2022
andrew garfield and zendaya scrolling on twitter after will smith punch chris rock#Oscarspic.twitter.com/ezVQd6UCx0
— Jaat👑 (@bluntJaat_) March 28, 2022
Another screenshot from the present confirmed “Spider-Man: No Way Home” stars Andrew Garfield and Zendaya wanting down at their telephones, wanting bored through the battle.
“Andrew garfield and zendaya scrolling on twitter after will smith punch chris rock #Oscars,” the tweet read.