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Noah Centineo's People's Choice Awards Speech refers to a series of memes based on actor Noah Centineo's acceptance speech at the 2019 People's Choice Awards, which many found confusing.

Origin

On November 10th, 2019, at the People's Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, actor Noah Centineo accepted the award for Favorite Comedy Movie Star for his role in the film The Perfect Date.^[1] During his speech he said:

Thank you everyone at home -- you are the reason I’m on this stage, you are the reason I get to do what I am passionate about. You are the reason that I have a platform that I can help hopefully make the world a bit of a better place. And before I go, I just want to say, it matters not what you’ve done but what you do with what you’ve done for others, thank you.

During the ceremony, the People's Choice Awards official Twitter tweeted an isolated version of the end of the speech. They wrote, "#TheComedyMovieStar @ncentineo, crutches and all, delivered one of his iconic motivational tweets IRL on the #PCAs stage." The post received more than 5.7 million views, 5,400 likes and 475 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

#TheComedyMovieStar @ncentineo, crutches and all, delivered one of his iconic motivational tweets IRL on the #PCAs stage. pic.twitter.com/SmqfMasV73

— E! People's Choice (@peopleschoice) November 11, 2019

Spread

That day, people began posting videos of the end of Centino's speech and joking about how they found the message confusing. Twitter user @kevinpokeeffe shared the video and wrote, "Noah……………… what." The tweet received more than 124,000 views, 3,100 likes and 250 retweets in less than three days (shown below).

Noah……………… what pic.twitter.com/i8sgMeaGAd

— Kevin O’Keeffe 🦃 (@kevinpokeeffe) November 11, 2019

Over the next few days, people continued to share the video, adding captions about the experience of improvising in the moment (examples below).

Several media outlets covered the meme, including PopBuzz,^[2] BuzzFeed ^[3] and more.

me trying to bullshit the conclusion paragraph when my essay is due in 15 minutes pic.twitter.com/qOPfeUw69W

— piercey (@piercespears) November 11, 2019

Me attempting to end my college admission essays: pic.twitter.com/4pY4Hkyrue

— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) November 11, 2019

Various Examples

Noah Centineo could’ve done Allegory of the Cave, but Plato couldn’t have done this pic.twitter.com/3cMXIni1tK

— Paul McCallion (@OrangePaulp) November 11, 2019

no one:

Mr. Schue at the end of every Glee episode: pic.twitter.com/ZrgWOHSNB3

— crazy spooked asian (@tribranchvo) November 11, 2019

Search Interest

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