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Will Smith Looking Around refers to an exploitable meme featuring Hollywood actor Will Smith standing against a white background wearing a multicoloured sweater and red-tinted glasses while looking around frantically. The video originates from Will Smith's song "Pretty Girls," which was released in 2025 to mixed reviews, garnering virality online. The memes are typically set to the lyrics "Me and Ashley, late night on the golf course," from an alternate, unreleased version of SZA's track "Wavy (Interlude)." The looped GIF went viral in video form on GIFTok in August 2025. The meme is typically used to joke about dodging something or looking around frantically, with jokes about looking at people's "buns" gaining particular traction online toward the end of August 2025.

Origin

At the 2:37-minute timestamp on Will Smith's song "Pretty Girls," originally released on June 13th, 2025, the actor can be seen looking around while dressed in a multicoloured knit sweater and red glasses. The YouTube^[1] upload of the track gathered over 2.7 million views in two months.

In August 2025, a GIF of the Will Smith clip came to be used as a TikTok meme. On August 13th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @cianapatron posted one of the earliest known memes featuring the Will Smith looking around clip, gathering over 1.2 million plays and 270,000 likes in four days. The caption on the video read, "When I get my first pole but there's so many potential first kills around me that I just cant decide which mf is gonna go first."

Spread

On August 14th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @startoverrr posted a video captioned, "It's the first day of freshman year and there's so many senior buns you don't know which to analyze first." The video gathered over 1.1 million plays and 220,000 likes in three days.

On August 16th, TikToker^[4] @und3rhaven posted a Will Smith looking around meme captioned, "When the teacher asks me to pull out my hw and I start looking around in my bookbag for it knowing damn well I didn't do it." The video gathered over 1.4 million plays and 400,000 likes in a day.

Also on August 16th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @inyuashua posted a meme captioned, "Its 2023 and nd u playing shadow box with yo hb and he genuinely peacing yo shi," gathering over 500,000 plays and 100,000 likes in a day.

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