Vanya Playing Video Games
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Vanya Playing Video Games refers to a scene in the 2024 film Anora that shows Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov (played by actor Mark Eydelshteyn) playing a video game with a white controller while Anora Mikheeva (played by actress Mikey Madison) is laying on top of him. The scene became an exploitable meme template on X / Twitter in early 2025. Internet users followed a split-screen meme template that showed which video game Vanya was playing.
Origin
On November 6th, 2024, the film Anora was released in theaters.[1] In one scene, the character Anora Mikheeva is watching Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov play a video game while cuddling on a couch.
On March 4th, 2025, Twitter[2] user @comedyzin tweeted the scene and added a Portuguese caption. He noted that the trigger buttons on the controller switched colors between cuts. The tweet received over 24.1 million views and 47,000 likes in five days.
o controle branco ai fica preto e volta pra branco de novo kkkkkkkk pic.twitter.com/LzVhWV8zKk
— comedi (@comedyzin) March 5, 2025
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On March 5th, 2025, Twitter[3] user @Dre18122024 quote tweeted @comedyzin's post, adding a video that showed Vanya playing the video game Amor Doce: High School Life, gathering over 53,000 likes in four days.
https://t.co/8lkJtzKxwv pic.twitter.com/Q60dyk3yUx
— Dre (@Dre18122024) March 5, 2025
On March 6th, Twitter[4] user @hyuuganism posted a video that used the same format, showing Vanya playing Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, gathering over 18,000 likes in three days.
https://t.co/aEEzZvXtRj pic.twitter.com/V4SqxUFNhc
— marizoka 𖦹 (@hyuuganism) March 7, 2025
On March 7th, 2025, Twitter[5] user @batmadonna posted a version of the meme with the Lego Batman video game, gathering over 67,000 likes in two days.
— ph (@batmadonna) March 7, 2025
On March 8th, Twitter[6] user @jestermaxxing quote tweeted the Lego Batman video, "I heard he refused a gaming coordinator on set," referencing Mikey Madison's Intimacy Coordinator Debate. It gathered over 53,000 likes in a day.
I heard he refused a gaming coordinator on set https://t.co/zmgiabyp6Q
— Zach (@jestermaxxing) March 8, 2025
Various Examples
on some real gamer shit what could he have possibly been playing doing all that https://t.co/ZvFmoBFXz6
— the introverted hater (@violentlyepic) March 8, 2025
anora (2024) ani and vanya on couch while he's playing a video game sonic adventure 2 edit by evrythgisrmntic pic.twitter.com/yuskxWOir3
— 🗂️ (@bratfolder) March 8, 2025
I did this while I was on the train pic.twitter.com/L6cWNwOiPC
— goldie! ✮🐌 (@gldenlaia) March 6, 2025
https://t.co/V8hF3QUKvQ pic.twitter.com/zHcWTMYKFU
— gabsel 🌿 (@_jkvgabs) March 7, 2025
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External References
[2] Twitter – @comedyzin
[3] Twitter – @Dre18122024
[4] Twitter – @hyuuganism
[5] Twitter – @batmadonna
[6] Twitter – @jestermaxxing
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