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Industry Harper Stern GIF refers to a reaction meme and GIF featuring a girl clicking and trading stocks on a computer screen. The GIF comes from the HBO show Industry and features a character named Harper Stern, played by actress Myha'la. The meme was popularized after 2024 and is typically used in GIF caption memes to joke about doing a complex or complicated task, especially on a computer.

Origin

The episode titled "Sesh" from season 1, episode 4 of the HBO show Industry aired on November 30th, 2020, and showed protagonist and freshman stock trader Harper Stern as she tries to pull off a risky trade. The scene shows Harper intensely chewing gum while staring at her computer screen, rapidly cutting to different screens and images.

The scene was reposted to HBO's official YouTube^[1] channel on December 28th, 2020, where it gathered over 300,000 views in four years.

The earliest known use of the scene as a GIF caption meme is a July 1st, 2023, tweet^[2] by X / Twitter user @killbiill that read, "switching between 3 different twitter accounts just so I can see the replies to my own tweets," gathering over 2,000 likes in two years.

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On November 5th, 2024, Twitter^[3] user @whyrev reposted the GIF with the caption, "Me switching between cnn, msnbc, cbs and abc and refreshing twitter for the next 24 hours," gathering over 1,000 likes in three months.

On January 28th, 2025, X^[4] user @bloodylikeabody tweeted, "Does anyone have that gif of the girl doing a million things on the computer," later quoting the post with the Industry GIF and gathering over 160,000 likes in two weeks.

On February 10th, X^[5] user @jacques_lakan tweeted, "Memorizing two or three words from a banger tweet so I can still search for it after it disappears during the instant timeline refresh," gathering over 160,000 likes in a day.

On February 11th, 2025, X^[6] user @imsufjanstevens tweeted, "Trying to unlike a song on Spotify," gathering over 72,000 likes in a day.

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