The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Standoff
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Standoff refers to a GIF of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly characters Blondie (Clint Eastwood), Tuco and Angel Eyes engaged in a Mexican standoff, staring each other down. Online, the GIF has been used as an exploitable in memes as users edit in additional characters (such as Side Eyeing Chloe), later gaining virality as source material for GIF captions.
Origin
On December 23rd, 1966, the spaghetti western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly premiered.[1] In one scene of the movie, the main trio of characters, Blondie (also called the Man with No Name), Tuco and Angel Eyes, engage in a three-way standoff, also known as the Mexican standoff, staring each other down (shown below).
Spread
As an Exploitable
The scene has been used as source material for memes since at least late 2013 when it was first combined with the GIF of Side Eyeing Chloe (shown below). The GIF was originally posted by an unknown user in the period between September 12th, 2013, and late December of that year. On December 30th, 2013, Know Your Meme[2] admin James archived the GIF on the site.
On January 26th, 2014, an Imgur[3] user uploaded an extended version of the GIF with multiple characters edited in, with the post accumulating over 18,000 points in nine years (shown below, left). More edited versions of the GIF were then posted in the following years. For example, a version with a clip of a cat edited in gained particularly notable spread (shown below, right).[4]
In Caption Memes
The GIFs have been used as source material for GIF and video captions at least since June 2019. For example, on June 18th, 2019, Tenor[5] user MBMadigan uploaded a GIF caption based on the cat version of the GIF (shown below, left). On November 1st, 2021, Redditor elch3w posted a GIF caption that received over 82,800 upvotes in the /r/memes[6] subreddit in one year (shown below, right).
On August 26th, 2022, iFunny[7] user Nimitz19 posted a meme based on the GIF that garnered over 2,600 smiles on the app in five months (shown below, left). The viral spread of the post triggered a period of active use of the GIF on iFunny, and later on Twitter, in the following months. For example, on August 26th, iFunny[8] user M1_Garand posted a "schizoposting";https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/schizoposting meme that received over 760 smiles on the app in five months (shown below, right).
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Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
[2] Know Your Meme – The Good, the Bad and the Chloe
[3] Internet Archive – What is my life. Just spent 4 hours adding to this gif. Hope you jerks like it
[4] Tenor – The Good The Bad And The Ugly Cat GIF
[5] Tenor – The Good The Bad And The Ugly Cat GIF
[6] Reddit – Its a struggle
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