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Aubrey Plaza Eye Contact refers to a scene from the 2020 American holiday romantic comedy-drama "Happiest Season" in which the character played by American actress Aubrey Plaza is making eye contact directly with the camera. The scene was quickly picked up in November 2020 on Twitter / X and turned into a reaction image in which people would express how attractive the scene is and what things they would like to do with the actress.

Origin

On November 25th, 2020, the comedy-drama holiday movie "Happiest Season" premiered on the streaming platform Hulu. The comedy follows the story of a young woman who struggles to admit to her conservative parents that she is a lesbian while she and her girlfriend visit them during Christmas. In one particular scene in the film, the character played by Aubrey Plaza, Riley, is making eye contact with the protagonist Abby, played by Kristen Stewart.

A still image from the scene was shared on X^[1] by @myveIouria on November 25th, 2020. The image (shown below) was accompanied by the caption "Aubrey Plaza is so hot in Happiest Season would love for her to take my life," which garnered over 3,000 likes and 679 retweets in three years.

Spread

Aubrey Plaza's character in the Happiest Season movie became a trending topic on social media, inspiring fancam posts and her scene making eye contact also was turned into a reaction image on X. For instance, on November 27th, 2020, YouTube^[2] user @hurricaneoflove1287 uploaded a fancam focused on Plaza's character (shown below), which amassed roughly 2,000 views and 34 likes in three years.

On November 27th, 2020, X^[3] user @KirstenKing_ posted Plaza's still image (shown below, left) paired with the caption "If anyone needs 2,000 words on Aubrey Plaza’s eye contact let me know." The post garnered over 23,000 likes and 1,500 retweets in three years. On December 14th, 2023, X^[4] user @ccmembersonly used the actress meme as a reaction image pretending she is the girlfriend of someone who went "wigger in Q4 2023." The post (shown below, right) received more than 1,400 likes and 91 retweets in a day.

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