Tallahassee Wiping Tears With Money
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Tallahassee Wiping Tears With Money refers to scene from 2009 film Zombieland of character Tallahassee (portrayed by Woody Harrelson) wiping his tears with money instead of tissue. The scene gained popular as reaction depicting the rich who cried after gets criticized or protests.
Origin
On October 2nd, 2009, the action-comedy film Zombieland has been premiered in the US[1]. In the film, there's a scene of character Tallahassee having a flashback of his deceased son and then starting to cry, later he wipe his eyes with money (scene shown below).
On October 18th, 2019, the official Tenor[2] account of Zombieland uploaded the GIF of the scene (shown below).
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In years, the scene gained popular as reaction when a corporate or rich people get criticized until they cry while wiping their tears with the money they have. For example on January 9th, 2020, Reddit[3] user Work_Confusion uploaded an edit depicting Disney after hearing people dislike the new Star Wars movies to the /r/memes subreddit. The post received more than 48,000 upvotes in four years (shown below).
On June 22nd, 2022, Reddit[4] user AestheticMirror uploaded an edit relating to Diablo and Blizzard related controversies to the /r/gaming subreddit. The post received more than 15,000 upvotes before it was deleted (shown below).
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[1] Fandom – Zombieland
[2] Tenor – Crying Wiping Tears With Money GIF
[3] Reddit – Poor Disney…
[4] Reddit – I guess giving them thousands of dollars is a form a protest?
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