Submission 915

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X user @selinaknope tweeted the GIF of Lena Dunham saying, "Hi," alongside a tweet that read, "have to admit i thought mark and helly were going for a father daughter dynamic until 1x08."

X user @jaephens posted the GIF of Hannah Horvath from _Girls_ saying hi to Patrick Wilson, writing, "promoting a new song while the worlds collapsing"

X user @zephyrinsky made a post that translates to, "I went to complain to IT that my drive was full, and we discovered that I accidentally saved 3 seasons of Twin Peaks in 4K on my work drive."

X user @samiamrosenberg tweeted the GIF of Hannah Horvath from _Girls_ greeting Joshua (played by Patrick Wilson) alongside a tweet that read, "How it feels looking for a job in the midst of a recession, ICE raids, and the onset of WWIII."

X user @willfulchaos tweeted the GIF of Lena Dunham saying "Hi" to Patrick Wilson, writing, "conan making that karla joke then the camera immediately swinging to her."

X user @FlVESTARWOMAN tweeted the GIF of Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvoth saying "Hi" to Patrick Wilson as "Joshua," calling it the "and this the universal gif of humiliation."

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Lena Dunham Saying Hi GIF

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Lena Dunham Saying Hi GIF is a reaction GIF and caption meme from the HBO show Girls that is used to joke about doing something embarrassing. The meme shows Patrick Wilson as the character Joshua (a doctor) turning around and dropping his smile when he sees Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath giving an awkward, two-handed "Hi." The GIF is sometimes described as the "GIF of humiliation" and is often compared to the Carrie Bradshaw At Big's Door meme.

Origin

Season 2, episode 5 of the HBO show Girls, titled "One Man's Trash," aired on February 10th, 2013. The episode followed Lena Dunham's character Hannah Horvath as she inadvertently enters a romantic entanglement with Joshua (played by Patrick Wilson), an older doctor who lives in a brownstone all by himself in her neighbourhood. Joshua comes into the coffee shop where Hannah works to complain about their trash ending up in his trash cans, not knowing that Hannah is the culprit.

YouTuber^[1] dandyneko posted the clip from the episode on August 31st, 2013, gathering over 10,000 views in 11 years.

The earliest known upload of the GIF is a July 25th, 2024, Tenor^[2] post by user gogetitt.

The earliest known upload of a scene from HBO's _Girls_ showing Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath saying "Hi" to Patrick Wilson as Joshua. The scene comes from a Season 2, Episode 5 episode of the show called "One Man's Trash."

The earliest known use of the GIF as a caption meme occurred on July 28th when X^[3] user @ungodlysamer wrote, "Viewing someone’s story 23 seconds after they post it," gathering over 50,000 likes in a year.

In July 2024, X user @ungodlysamer wrote, "Viewing someone’s story 23 seconds after they post it" gathered over 50,000 likes in a year. The tweet was posted alongside a GIF of Lena Dunham saying "Hi" to Patrick Wilson in an episode of the HBO show _Girls_.

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The GIF gained traction online in July 2024, primarily on X / Twitter. For example, on July 28th, X^[4] user @Themb0flcation wrote, "Texted group chat 'who wants to hangout' and got no response but just saw them all at brunch together on ig stories," gathering over 118,000 likes in a year.

On July 28th, 2024, X user @Themb0flcation wrote, "Texted group chat “who wants to hangout” and got no response but just saw them all at brunch together on ig stories," gathering over 118,000 likes in a year.The tweet was posted alongside a GIF of Lena Dunham saying "Hi" to Patrick Wilson in an episode of the HBO show _Girls_.

The GIF continued to gain traction in 2025, with X^[5] user @gonegirlfriend posting a tweet on January 8th, 2025, that read, "just bought a vibrator from a cashier with an asexual flag pride pin." The post gathered over 90,000 likes in six months.

X user @gonegirlfriend tweeted, "just bought a vibrator from a cashier with an asexual flag pride pin," alongside a GIF of Hannah Horvath from _Girls_ saying "Hi" to Joshua.

On June 24th, 2025, X^[6] user @FlVESTARWOMAN tweeted the GIF of Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath saying, "Hi," to Patrick Wilson as the character Joshua, calling it the "and this the universal gif of humiliation" in a reply to another user who posted the Carrie Bradshaw at Big's Door meme.

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^[1] YouTube – dandy neko

^[2] TikTok – Hannah Horvath GIF

^[3] Twitter / X – ungodlysamer

^[4] Twitter / X – Themb0flcation

^[5] Twitter / X – gonegirlfriend

^[6] Twitter / X – FlVESTARWOMAN

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