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Tai Lung Looking At Computer refers to a photoshopped image from the 2008 animated film Kung Fu Panda featuring villain Tai Lung looking shocked at a computer screen. Since 2022, the scene has been used as image macro, exploitable and reaction meme on Facebook, Reddit and Twitter / X, usually as a reply to controversial opinions or content shared on social media.

Origin

The earliest known usage of the still image featuring Tai Lung from the 2008 animated film Kung Fu Panda ^[1] was posted as a reply on Facebook^[2] by user @poxavictoremanuel.1023611, who shared the photoshopped image of the villain looking stunned at a computer screen (shown below). The post amassed roughly 4 likes in two years.

Spread

Over the next few months in 2022, the meme grew popular as a reaction image, being uploaded to X^[3] by the meme catalog page @reactjpg on September 28th, 2022. The image (shown below, left) was titled "Tai Lung Kung Fu Panda looking at computer screen exasperated confused shocked," amassing more than 335 likes and 43 retweets in two years. On September, 11th, 2022, X^[4] user @guilherme_tel3s used the meme to comment on a scene from the HBO show "House Of The Dragon"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/house-of-the-dragon that shocked him. The post (shown below, right) received over 359 likes and 64 retweets in two years.

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