Dissociating Chris Pine / Chris Pine Tuning Out

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Dissociating Chris Pine or Chris Pine Tuning Out is a photograph of actor Chris Pine with a blank stare during a Venezia79 press conference for the 2022 movie Don't Worry Darling, also starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh. Once the image was posted to Twitter in late 2022, it quickly became an image macro and reaction image meme format typically accompanied with various captions related to frustration and anger contrasted by a muted gaze.

Origin

On September 5th, 2022, the cast of Don't Worry Darling promoted their film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival (Venezia79).^[1] During the event, Chris Pine was a part of a panel to talk about the film's production. At approximately 6:30 a.m. EST, Twitter^[2] user kylebuchanan tweeted a screenshot of Pine behind his name tag at the panel, captioning it, "This is a lotta look for Chris Pine," earning roughly 1,900 likes in four days (shown below).

Spread

Within an hour of kylebuchanan's tweet on September 5th, 2022, the image of Pine along with others taken during the press conference surfaced on Twitter in a memetic context. For instance, minutes after kylebuchanan's tweet, Twitter^[3] user sweetsatelIite compared Pine at the press conference to The Hunger Games character Haymitch Abernathy played by Woody Harrelson, earning roughly 144,600 likes in four days (shown below).

Minutes after sweetsatelIite's tweet, Twitter^[4] user jenikamei then captioned the Miley Cyrus' Blue Eyes image with, "chris pine on the panel:" earning roughly 9,800 likes in four days (shown below, left). An hour later on September 5th, Twitter^[5] user katehalliwell captioned the one photo of Pine with, "me filling the room with negative energy bc i don’t wanna be there," and earned roughly 255,100 likes in four days (shown below, right).

Roughly two hours later on September 5th, 2022, Twitter^[6] user fiImgal tweeted four photos of Chris Pine at the panel, captioning them, "somebody get chris pine outta there." Over the course of four days, the tweet received roughly 50,900 likes (shown below). Thereafter, multiple iterations surfaced using variations of the same four images.

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