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Jared Leto's Green Jacket refers to a series of image macros and jokes made about the jacket Jared Leto wore to the premiere of the Suicide Squad film.

Origin

On August 2nd, Jared Leto attended the London premiere of Suicide Squad in a long green jacket and pink pants, attracting the mockery of the internet, particularly when it was discovered that Leto had seen the jacket a month earlier at a Gucci fashion show.^[1]

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The next day, Twitter user "@jasonnmomoa"^[2] posted a photoset of Leto seeing the jacket at the fashion show, reacting with glee, then wearing the same jacket at the Suicide Squad premiere. The tweet gained over 58,000 retweets and 74,000 likes (shown below).

The image and Twitter's reaction to the jacket was covered by fashion websites including Elle^[4]
and Slate.^[5]

On August 4th, 2016, Leto clarified to Vanity Fair^[6] that the picture of him seemingly giddy at the sight of the jacket misrepresented the moment, and that he was not giddy at the jacket but joking with a friend.

“The thing about the photo is--I’m going to be honest with you--I was actually making a face at someone across the runway…I have that feeling with most things [Gucci] makes because they make such beautiful things. But I was actually goofing off with a friend, and you can’t actually tell from the picture… Sorry to ruin your meme."

Leto's clarification certainly upset many bloggers,^[7][8][9] and arguably gained more coverage than the meme itself.

On Reddit,^[3] the image of Leto in a jacket also prompted a photoshop battle started by user "ifknlovela." The thread has 793 points, 90% upvotes as of August 5th, 2016.

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