Miley Cyrus' Blue Eyes

About

Miley Cyrus' Blue Eyes refers to an image of pop singer Miley Cyrus taken at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Ten years later, the photo spread on Twitter in numerous photoshops as people rediscovered the photo and found it humorous and creepy.

Origin

The photo of Miley Cyrus was taken at the 2008 Grammy awards on February 10th, 2008.^[1]

Spread

As a meme, the photo first spread as a Steve Buscemeyes parody. ^[2]

However, it was not until October of 2018 that the photo spread more widely on Twitter. On October 18th, 2018, Twitter user @brianlunn tweeted the image with a caption mocking people with blue eyes, gaining over 38,000 retweets and 161,000 likes (shown below).

As the tweet spread, other Twitter users began pairing the photo with their own captions. For example, Twitter user @geolololol posted the image with a caption and gained over 800 retweets and 4,000 likes (shown below, left). User @KlarksonCelly posted a joke that gained 50 retweets and over 490 likes (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users began being photoshopping the image. Some Twitter users made the image appear creepy. User @purpledream posted a video in which he made the image morph into a more demonic version, gaining over 900 retweets and 2,000 likes (shown below).

Others inserted Cyrus' face into other pieces of media. User @Alfredo666 posted a compilation of the face photoshopped into each of alternative pop singer Bjork's album covers, gaining over 900 retweets and 3,700 likes (shown below, left). User @fkanico inserted the image into a poster for A Star Is Born, gaining over 1,300 retweets and 6,300 likes (shown below, right). The meme was covered by W Magazine,^[3] Daily Dot,^[4] and Popbuzz.^[5]

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