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The Simpsons Sopranos Poster or The Simpsons Black and White Stare, also known as The Simpranos, refers to a reaction image based on a promotional poster for The Simpsons inspired by The Sopranos, showing the characters in black and white with their arms crossed, staring forward with stern looks on their faces. The poster was purportedly sold by Scorpio Posters as early as 2001.

In February 2026, the poster's artwork was popularized on sites including X / Twitter, TikTok and Reddit as the subject of image macro memes. As a meme, the artwork is shared alongside captions about the "type of look" certain people give you when you do something they disagree with. On TikTok, the meme was associated with posts about chitlins, a delicacy in the American South.

Origin

In 2001, a poster was made for The Simpsons that is based on promotional artwork for The Sopranos. The poster, purportedly sold by Scorpio Posters,^[1] shows the Simpson family and other side characters in black and white with serious looks on their faces, staring forward over a logo inspired by The Sopranos.

One of the earliest known memes to use the artwork is a low-res Spanish reaction image meme that adds the caption "silencio" to the bottom of the image, used to tell people to be quiet. On April 10th, 2023, this meme was posted to Tenor.^[2] The true origin of the meme is unclear.

Spread

In February 2026, a cropped version of the poster went viral as a reaction image on sites like X, Reddit and TikTok.

On February 2nd, 2026, X^[3] user @3StarRanker posted a version of the meme reading, "Miserable people when you enjoy something," garnering over 33,000 likes in three weeks.

On February 21st, 2026, X^[4] user @jb141_ posted the image with the caption, "when ur hanging around suguru geto and he casually mentions how 13% of non-sorcerers commit 50% of crimes," referencing Jujutsu Kaisen, garnering over 22,000 likes in four days.

On February 22nd, 2026, Redditor u/dbsflame posted the image with the caption, "How mfs looked at you if you said piccolo wasn't gohan's real dad in 2017" to the /r/Ningen^[5] subreddit, garnering over 750 upvotes in three days. It was reposted by X^[6] user @Extralongdokkan that day, garnering over 6,200 likes in three days.

On February 23rd, X^[6] user @Arkansauce4 posted the meme with the caption, "White people when you call Bowser Jr lame," garnering over 3,500 likes in two days.

On February 24th, X^[8] user @NajiDoingCrack posted the meme with the caption, "White people when you tell them tung tung tung sahur is coming to fortnite:," in response to a tweet sharing a rumor that Tung Tung Tung Sahur is coming to Fortnite, gaining over 5,400 likes in a day.

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