About

Chuck E. Cheese Stare, also known as Awkward Look Mouse, is a reaction image and image macro series featuring photographs of an animatronic Chuck E. Cheese restaurant mascot looking to the side before staring directly at the camera. The images are often used online to convey feelings of shock or terror.

Origin

On November 16th, 2014, Tumblr^[7] user thehouseofmario posted a video of a Chuck E. Cheese robot suddenly glaring at the camera while being filmed (shown below). Over the next three years, the post garnered more than 126,000 notes.

Spread

On January 25th, 2015, Imgur^[3] user wavetree uploaded a GIF of the video titled "A nope from my childhood" (shown below). Within three years, the post gained over 11,200 views, 10,700 points and 560 comments. On January 26th, 2015, Redditor Alstorp reposted the GIF /r/creepy.^[2]

On May 30th, 2015, Twitter user @leviwrfel^[1] tweeted the Chuck E. Cheese photographs along with the caption "when the white kid in class punches his desk and whispers something under his breath" (shown below, left). The following day, Twitter user @jen_allen^[6] posted the images along with a Netflix and Chill joke (shown below, right). Within two years, the tweets gained over 12,000 and 20,900 retweets respectively.

On April 9th, 2017, MemeDroid user SLVRDLLR uploaded an image macro joking about the Shayrat Air Base missile strike (shown below, left). That day, Redditor thedeathtouch reposted the joke to /r/ImGoingToHellForThis.^[5] On April 11th, Redditor Theboss12312 submitted an image macro with the caption joking about the United Airlines passenger removal controversy (shown below, right). Within six hours, the post gained over 1,000 points (97% upvoted) on /r/dankmemes.^[4]

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