Every Day I Wake Up

About

Every Day I Wake Up is a two- or three-panel exploitable image macro from the Netflix movie Marriage Story. While in the middle of an argument with Scarlett Johansson's character, Adam Driver's character gestures, punches a wall and then cries with his hands over his head. While a longer format exists, which has input from Johansson's character (called Nicole and Charlie's Argument), this specific format only uses Charlie's scenes in memes, typically to show a frustrated or angry reaction to something.

Origin

Marriage Story released on November 6th, 2019, and was a dramatic telling of a marriage between the characters Charlie and Nicole. Due to the real-life depictions in the movie, some scenes resonated with the audience and meme-makers online. The fight between Charlie and Nicole (seen below) proved particularly prevalent in memes and spawned two different templates. The scene that Every Day I Wake Up comes from was uploaded to YouTube on December 6th, 2019, by the YouTube channel Netflix Film Club, gaining over 3.6 million views in 18 months.

On November 8th, 2020, Tumblr user IncorrectBookQuotes posted a meme that uses Adam Driver's portions of the format in an example of caption changing. The post^[1] received over 400 notes and 300 likes in roughly seven months (shown below).

Spread

The meme continued to spread from Tumblr, making its way across other social media sites and Reddit. On May 20th, 2021, Redditor^[2] Oldmate81 posted a three-panel variety expressing his frustration at understanding what makes houses move, which obtained 55 upvotes in one month (shown below).

On July 1st, Twitter^[3] user @shahirahnizam used the two-panel format in a tweet expressing their frustration at not being able to get their first COVID-19 vaccine appointment yet (shown below).

Various Examples

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