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Confused Travolta
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About
Confused Travolta is an animated GIF series featuring a cutout of actor John Travolta in the 1994 black comedy crime film Pulp Fiction edited into other base images of various contexts.
Origin
On November 17th, 2012, Imgur[5] user karmafrappuccino posted a reaction GIF of the Pulp Fiction character Vincent Vega (played by John Travolta) looking around a room while being spoken to over an intercom by the character Mia Wallace (shown below).
On November 6th, Imgur[2] user ILikeToWonkaMyWilly uploaded a Confused Travolta GIF in a supermarket toy aisle (shown below). Within ten days, the post gained over 2.8 million views, 12,600 points and 370 comments.
Spread
The following day, ILikeToWonkaMyWilly posted a tutorial for making Confused Travolta GIFs using Sony Vegas Pro software and provided a GIF of Travolta in front of a green background (shown below).[4]
Also on November 7th, Imgur user danoone submitted a GIF titled "MRW no one tells me the class is canceled," in which the Travolta GIF is edited into a photograph of an empty classroom (shown below). In the first nine days, the GIF received upwards of 870,000 views and 10,500 points.
On November 8th, the /r/ConfusedTravolta[1] subreddit was launched for notable examples from the GIF series. The following day, YouTuber Burt Rutherford uploaded a video titled "Return of the Confused Travolta," featuring the Confused Travolta animation and a clip from the Shia LaBeouf motivational video edited into a scene from the 1983 science fiction film Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (shown below).
On November 10th, Imgur[3] published a blog post about the animated GIF series, featuring several notable examples uploaded to the image-sharing site. In the coming days, the news sites The Daily Star[6] and Brilio[7] posted articles about the Confused Travlota GIFs.
Search Interest
Not available.
External References
[1] Reddit – /r/ConfusedTravolta
[2] Imgur – MRW I ask my daughter what she wants for Christmas and she says
[3] Imgur – The Rise of Confused Travolta
[4] Imgur – So you want to make a quick and easy GIF?
[5] Imgur – MFW Im the first one to show up at a party
[6] The Daily Star – John Travolta looking confused is the funniest thing on the internet
[7] Brilio – Newest viral trend – 10 of the best Confused Travolta#
Top Comments
Real Waluigi
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LostDingo
Nov 16, 2015 at 11:26PM EST