About

Guy Staring into Webcam is a reaction and image macro meme that features a grainy image of a white man dressed in a grey or blue T-shirt with a bike hanging on the wall behind him staring into his computer's camera with a shocked and worried expression on his face. The still features actor Colin Woodell from the 2018 horror film Unfriended: Dark Web, which follows a group of friends as they become the target of an evil entity while playing a game over video call with each other. In the mid-2020s, the still of the man spread online, primarily as an image caption meme used to express horror and shock.

Origin

The film Unfriended: Dark Web was released on March 9th, 2018, and follows a group of friends as actor Colin Woodell plays a game over video call with his friends, inadvertently putting everyone at the mercy of a malevolent entity that starts picking them off one by one.

The "Guy Staring into Webcam" meme features Colin Woodell in one still from the movie, the trailer^[1] for which is shown below.

The earliest known post featuring the still from the movie is a May 12th, 2024, post and POV meme on Threads^[2] by user @yznjuns that read, "pov: reading yeonjun’s birthday message to soobin," gathering over 200 likes in a year.

Spread

On February 5th, 2025, Facebook^[3] user Noel Rivers wrote, "my bf when I give him a new piece of horrifying lore from my past," gathering over 9,000 likes in ten months.

Instagram^[4] user @lozzytabrias posted a redraw of the "Guy Staring into Webcam" meme on April 29th, gathering over 2,000 likes in seven months.

Tumblr^[5] user @bylerpining posted a "Guy Staring into Webcam" meme alongside a Stranger Things themed post that read, "mike when he read 'maybe it is for a girl.'" The June 15th, 2025, post gathered over 2,000 notes in six months.

On August 20th, 2025, X^[6] user @ivanphilia tweeted, "'did you eat' / 'yes' / 'what did you eat'" alongside the Guy Staring into Webcam meme, gathering over 300,000 likes in three months.

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