Shocked Tiger / He Realized He Not Built For This

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Shocked Tiger refers to a viral video featuring a tiger that is about to be released into the wild. The animal's perplexed expression became a viral reaction image in September 2022 on Twitter (X), Instagram and Facebook with a recaption text saying He Realized He Not Built For This.

Origin

On September 20th, 2022, the YouTube^[1] channel @WickedWombat uploaded a compilation video of "Animals Being FREED For The First Time!" In a particular moment in the video (shown below), a tiger is about to be released into the wild, which garnered over 49 million views and 688,000 likes in a year.

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A screenshot of the tiger’s expression was posted on X^[2] by user @TheUptownSound_ on September 25th, 2022, which amassed more than 407,000 likes and 41,600 retweets in a year. (shown below)

Related Memes

He Realized He Not Built For This

On October 19th, 2022, IFunny^[3] user @Gonklu uploaded the picture of the shocked tiger (shown below, left) with an overlay text "He Realized He Not Built For This." The meme became a popular reaction image on X, for example, user @thewolfofy^[4] posted the meme paired with the caption "The Demon Slayer core realizing Akaza isn't even the strongest upper rank," which amassed roughly 85 likes and 2 retweets since it was posted (shown below, right) on April 9, 2023.

Animals Seeing F***** For The First Time

The shocked tiger image received a YouTube thumbnail meme version in early April 2023 with the text "Animals Seeing F***** For The First Time," which was shared on X^[5] by user @izva69 on April 2nd, 2023. The post (shown below) garnered over 96 likes and 13 retweets in seven months.

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