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Janiyah Turning Around is a reaction image from the 2025 Netflix movie Straw, written and directed by Tyler Perry and starring actress Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah Wiltkinson, a struggling mother trying to make ends meet. This particular meme shows Janiyah at a bank teller's counter, turning around while looking frazzled and exasperated. The reaction meme is used, typically in caption memes, by people joking about stressful or overwhelming moments in their lives, indicating that they are down to their last straw. The film was released on June 6th, 2025, with the meme spreading online soon after.

Origin

According to IMDb,^[6] the film Straw, written, produced and directed by Tyler Perry, was released on June 6th, 2025. The film follows a woman named Janiyah Wiltkinson as she finds herself at the center of a bank robbery after losing custody of her child.

The earliest known notable post featuring the meme was a June 9th, 2025, tweet by X^[1] / Twitter user @ilovealkira that read, "Damn Apple, that was my lunch money 😭." The tweet gathered over 100,000 likes in two weeks.

Spread

The meme continued to make the rounds in June 2025, with X^[2] user @brgggsz used the image of Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah Wiltkinson in the movie Straw to joke about spending too much money on a movie date on June 11th, 2025, gathering over 19,000 likes in six days.

Also on June 11th, X^[3] user @coxoleaa tweeted the meme from Straw to joke about Beyoncé's hair serum selling out before she could buy it, writing, "man fuck how bald is the beyhive edges?? why tf the cecred edge drops sold out already?? y’all ain’t even give me a chance to open the website." The post gathered over 36,000 likes in six days

On June 13th, X^[5] user @cee_suella posted the image in response to the Everyone Will Feel It tweet posted by an unofficial account several internet users mistook for a legitimate source. The tweet asked, "Every???" gathering over 400,000 likes in four days.

On June 14th, 2025, the Instagram^[4] page @stiffmoods made a carousel featuring the reaction meme from Straw, gathering over 14,000 likes in three days.

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