Side Eye Horse

About

Side Eye Horse refers to a close-up wide-angle photograph of a brown horse side-eyeing the camera with one eye. Some mistook the horse for a cow side-eye. The reaction image trended on Twitter / X in mid-2024, amassing fan art and exploitable usage. Some likened the horse to the slang term "honse" (a misspelling of "horse") based on so-called "honse" art created by Instagram user @rainy_daze_arts. It's currently unknown who originally posted the photo but it surfaced in late May 2024.

Origin

Currently, the earliest discovered post with the Side Eye Horse photo was shared by X^[1] user @Loccdawggg on May 31st, 2024. The quote received 12 likes in two months. The photo shows a brown horse looking at the camera with only its right eye. The photo was taken close-up with a wide-angle lens, most likely an iPhone's 0.5x zoom lens (shown below).

Spread

On June 1st, 2024, X^[2] user @KioshiWarrior used the photo in a tweet that read, "I got in an hour long debate with my brother about Spirited Away last night," gaining over 110 likes in a month (shown below, left).

More viral usage surfaced a month later in early July, starting with a tweet shared by X^[3] user @Loccdawggg on July 1st, that quoted a post reading, "this meatlovers pizza and grape jelly >>>" with "Together?" receiving over 105,000 likes in four days (shown below, right).

On July 2nd, 2024, Tumblr^[4] user themysteriousmurasamecastle posted the photo, writing, "this pic is unbelievable," receiving over 24,000 notes in three days (shown below, left). The post inspired fan art on the site, like a drawing shared by Tumblr^[5] user dead-clade-waltz on July 2nd (shown below, right).

The image also amassed fan art on X during the same timeframe. For instance, on July 4th, 2024, X^[6] user @ursiday posted a painting of the horse, captioned, "I literally cant stop thinking about this image I had to paint it," receiving over 87,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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