Blinking White Guy

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Category: Meme Status: confirmed Year: 2015 Origin: NeoGaf Region:

Type: Reaction

Tags: drew scanlon reaction image gif white guy blinking podcaster kanye west first guy to giant bomb giantbomb jeff gerstmann tokubetsu @eksbl

About

Blinking White Guy, also known as Drew Scanlon Reaction, is a GIF of Drew Scanlon, video editor and podcaster at video game website Giant Bomb. The GIF of Scanlon is used as a reaction image to express incredulity. In August 2019, a multi-panel format based on the GIF known as First Guy To gained popularity.

Origin

On December 6th, 2013, an episode of GiantBomb series "Unprofessional Fridays" premiered.^[5] In the episode, Drew Scanlon performs a "double take" reaction when Jeff Gerstmann says "farming with my hoe" while playing Starbound (shown below).

The earliest known post to use the GIF of Scanlon was a comment by Tokubetsu responding to a comic about Kanye West and Future posted to a NeoGAF thread on July 27th, 2015.^[1]

Originally Posted by IrishNinja Ya'll throwin' contracts at me? Ya'll know that n----- can't read! F--- you and your corporation R.A.P is overrated des where that future review at doe can't control mg canall n----- 60 Well, I figured out why I never Ya'll n----- can't f--- with Ye!Future years ago on one of Gu Ya'll n----- can't f--- with Ye! compared to Gucci's verses (g Future up until now. As I watch copout, and that he was just u dude who couldn't make it in t keep him alive in the industry change my mind about him. It heard DS2. I'm bout to wild the f--- out! I'm goin' BOBBY BOUCHER!

Spread

The GIF had been around for nearly two years, but it was not until February 2017 that it spiked in popularity on Twitter. On February 5th, user @eksbl^[2] used it in a tweet describing his reaction in biology class, gaining nearly 50,000 retweets.

me: ill take a biology class, im smart enough for this just watch me
teacher: cells
me: pic.twitter.com/fHJJsPLioO
— iniro🐔 (@eskbl) February 5, 2017

In the coming week, several other tweets employing the GIF would gain tens of thousands of retweets, turning the GIF into a meme. Meanwhile, fan threads on GiantBomb's forums^[3] and NeoGAF^[4] discussed the transformation of Scanlon into a meme.

First Guy To

In August 2019, Blinking White Guy regained popularity in memes as a multi-panel format, also known as First Guy To, usually illustrating the passage of a short amount of time in a similar vein to some of the Surprised Joji meme (examples shown below).