Wee-Bey's Reaction

Wee-Bey's Reaction

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Updated Sep 10, 2021 at 05:00PM EDT by Jel.

Added Apr 06, 2017 at 05:48PM EDT by Don.

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Wee-Bey's Reaction, also known as You Don't Say, is an reaction GIF of the character Wee-Bey Brice from the HBO drama series The Wire appearing incredulous after discovering a woman is a police officer. The image is often used online to express shock, wonder and amazement.

Origin

In Season 1 Episode 11 of The Wire titled "The Hunt,"[5] originally aired on August 18th, 2002, the character Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice acts incredulous after being told that a woman he shot was an undercover police officer (shown below).



On August 17th, 2009, Nike Talk Forums[6] member dreClark submitted a GIF of Wee-Bay's reaction in the scene to a thread about The Wire (shown below).



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On February 24th, 2010, BodyBuilding Forums[4] member poolshark472 submitted a post requesting "the GIF of Wee-Bey from the Wire." On January 5th, 2011, IGN Forums[3] member Dev1359 submitted a post asking about the GIF. On August 10th, 2012, a GIF of Wee-Bey's reaction in the scene was submitted to the /r/funny[2] subreddit, which subsequently gained over 944,000 views and 980 points on Imgur over the next five years.[1] On July 20th, 2015, Imgur user levieuxquicrisesarace submitted the GIF in a post titled "So you tell me a vanilla ice cream cone is twice the price of a chocolate one?" (shown below).


So you tell me a Vanilla ice cream cone is twice the price of a Chocolate one?

On November 13th, 2016, Instagram user @nowwutdotcom posted the GIF to represent Republican watching Donald Trump do an interview on 60 Minutes (shown below).




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