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Jenna Ortega Shoots Sabrina Carpenter refers to a clip from the 2024 music video for the song "Taste" in which the character portrayed by actress and pop artist Jenna Ortega shoots the character played by singer Sabrina Carpenter with a shotgun. In late August 2024, the clip achieved virality as a reaction conveying strong disagreement to something, spawning video and GIF caption memes.

Origin

On August 23rd, 2024, a music video for Sabrina Carpenter's song "Taste" premiered. Throughout the music video, Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega's characters are harming each other in various ways over a boyfriend, with Ortega at one point shooting Carpenter with a shotgun, causing the latter to fly out of the window and fall to the ground.

The music video (shown below) garnered over 37 million views on YouTube^[1] in six days.

On August 24th, X^[2] / Twitter user @enquilette posted the clip of Jenna Ortega shooting Sabrina Carpenter with the music removed and sound effects of a gunshot and screams edited in. The video (shown below) received 50 reposts and over 530 likes in five days.

Jenna Ortega shooting Sabrina carpenter but with no music pic.twitter.com/FboNmiE0v3

— ᴍᴏɴɪᴄᴀ (@enquilette) August 24, 2024

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In the following days, the upload achieved popularity as a video caption format for memes, with the edited clip being utilized to express extreme disagreement and dislike toward something. For example, on August 24th, 2024, X^[3] user @szaings posted the video with a caption comparing two studio albums by singer SZA. The post (shown below) received over 1,400 reposts and 10,000 likes in five days.

“SOS is better than CTRL” pic.twitter.com/sx0FcBGWuu

— nini (@szaings) August 24, 2024

On August 26th, 2024, X^[4] user @michaelcollado captioned the meme, "Me when I find the person responsible for normalizing 8-episode seasons," with the post (shown below) gaining over 19,000 reposts and 182,000 likes in three days.

Me when I find the person responsible for normalizing 8-episode seasons pic.twitter.com/xdqGQJQCou

— Maicol 📺 (@michaelcollado) August 26, 2024

The caption format maintained popularity on X / Twitter through late August 2024, particularly among stans of various artists.

Various Examples

chappell roan when u ask for a picture w/ her pic.twitter.com/pxOXWaqxjP

— flo sillie (@hennyonmylips) August 25, 2024

“terrifier is so bad, anyone who enjoys that sort of-” pic.twitter.com/uzJbaWTpws

— sar-AAH! 🎃 (@saraaaaahh) August 28, 2024

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