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Journalist Headshot refers to an observation made by a Twitter user that many journalists on the platform had avatars that resembled a picture of a juvenile macaque monkey they'd discovered. The joke was proven correct by many journalists who realized their avatar appeared similar to the photo of the monkey.

Origin

On March 19th, 2019, Twitter user @RuchoSharma^[1] tweeted a picture of a monkey with the caption, "this is every journalist headshot." The tweet gained over 6,900 retweets and 45,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

After the tweet was posted, many Twitter journalists found their avatars proved @RuchoSharma's joke correct. For example, tweets by Mary Von Aue and Sydney Naseef both expressed their surprise at the accuracy of the comparison with their own avatars (shown below).

User Terron Moore gained the most responses to the original tweet, gaining over 3,800 retweets and 27,000 likes on his tweet realizing his avatar matched the monkey (shown below, left). User @broderick joked that the monkey "just got in a Twitter fight about how even though it went to Oxford, it still struggled and deserves its weekly column in the Guardian," gaining over 210 retweets and 2,100 likes (shown below, right). The tweets were covered in Twitter Events that day.^[2]

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