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White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock refers to a piece of artwork of the character White Rabbit, also known as Nivins McTwisp, from Alice in Wonderland pointing at the time on his pocket watch. The drawing became the subject of an image macro series on TikTok in 2025 as meme creators added captions to the image about checking the time. Initially, the memes were set to the song "So Fun" by Seven Harris. The original artwork was created by DeviantArt artist Luz Tapia (LuzTapia) in March 2012. However, its first discovered repost was shared on Pinterest in 2016, as the original artwork was deleted.

The White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock image was revitalized by the All Roads Lead to Rome TikTok trend later in 2025. The image then spread rapidly on Twitter / X in early October 2025 as users paired it with captions about running out of time, commonly in regards to romantic relationships and the process of "aging out" of certain hobbies, activities or character traits. A GIF version of the meme, sourced from the 2010 live-action Alice in Wonderland film, also amassed usage on X.

Origin

On March 16th, 2012, DeviantArt^[1] artist Luz Tapia (LuzTapia) created an original artwork of White Rabbit, from Alice in Wonderland, pointing at a clock and looking at the viewer. The image has since been deleted from the artist's DeviantArt page, but its earliest known repost was shared by Pinterest^[2] user Royce M. Becker on September 13th, 2016.

The origin date is confirmed by the dated signature printed on the original image. Luz Tapia also confirmed the date in a video shared to her X^[9] account in October 2025, which was a screen-recording of the artwork's original Photoshop file, showing the date as March 16th, 2012.

Notably, the image was used in memes starting on TikTok in May 2025.

On May 13th, TikToker^[3] @boxed3k posted a photo using the app's Photo Mode, showing the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock with a caption reading, "How teachers be posted up when you start packing 1 minute before class ends." Over four months, the photo received over 478,000 likes.

Spread

On May 16th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @jd4space posted a photo that added to the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock image macro series. The photo's caption read, "How MFs feel after using military time and not regular time." Over four months, the post gained over 572,600 likes.

Also on May 16th, Instagram ^[5] user @steameer_clips posted a Slow Fade-In video that slowly faded in a White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock image macro, reading, "How MFs feel saying a quarter 'til 12 instead of 11:75." The Reel received over 9,800 likes in four months.

Adding to the trend, other meme creators used different artworks of White Rabbit.

For instance, on May 14th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @sleepytimephonk posted an image caption meme, using artwork of White Rabbit trapped in a jar with a caption about a principal confronting a student about excreting on a school bathroom floor. Over four months, the post gained over 15,900 likes.

On June 6th, Twitter / X ^[8] user @problemsthots tweeted the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock image and paired it with a caption about contestants on season 7 of the reality TV show Love Island USA, gaining over 28,000 likes in three months.

On September 11th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @bisskon resurfaced the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock meme to use in the All Roads Lead to Rome trend, gaining over 67,400 likes in a week.

In early October 2025, the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock image began rapidly spreading on X.

For instance, on October 7th, X^[11] user @MoneyFolder5 shared the image, captioning it, "Been sending this to my homeboy every day for no discernible reason, I refuse [to] elaborate or explain what the image means, and it's been pissing him off so bad," gaining over 180,000 likes in 10 days.

On October 13th, 2025, X^[12] user @JustBeTweeting tweeted a GIF version of the meme, using a clip from the 2010 live-action Alice in Wonderland film, directed by Tim Burton.^[13] The post received over 174,000 likes in four days.

GIF Caption tweets using the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock GIF then surfaced, evident in a tweet shared by X^[14] user @OvOBrezzzy on October 15th, who captioned it, "When the side character randomly starts getting too much screen time," gaining over 68,000 likes in two days.

As the meme spread en masse on X, anti-meme usage started to surface. For instance, on October 16th, 2025, X^[15] user @lunch_enjoyer tweeted the image, captioning it, "When your a white dog with a clock 😂," receiving over 12,000 likes in a day.

Luz Tapia's Reaction

On October 8th, 2025, Luz Tapia, the original artist, posted a quote-tweet on her X^[10] account, @luztapiaart, of a post that used the White Rabbit Pointing at a Clock image, writing, "Seeing this drawing I made [in] 2012 become a meme it's still crazy to me." Her post received over 287,000 likes in nine days.

She started a thread in her tweet's replies, attaching a video that screen-recorded the original artwork's Photoshop file, showing her adding and removing its layers.

Also, I still have the original PSD and here you'll see me hiding the base layers below the textures and after that, the texture layers.
When I hide the eye you can see the sketch below! pic.twitter.com/m0W9DGgQbQ

— Luz Tapia Art (@luztapiaart) October 8, 2025

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