It’s basically the webslinger calling the kettle Spider-Man. What It Means: “You’re a hypocrite.” It can be self-deprecating, like when you scold the cat for eating out of last night’s pizza box, or other-deprecating, like when a politician who rails against “groomers” is caught spending too much time in middle school parking lots. It only became a meme after a random Twitter user posted the screenshot asking for captions, and to be fair, it is the perfect face for expressing barely concealed contempt. That’s all it is: She’s just laughing at her own joke. She says Jon is only the second man she’s ever truly trusted, and when Sansa asks who the first was, she responds, “Someone taller.” Then she giggles like she made Westeros’ first joke, which may be true. Daenerys may very well have come to this conversation with Sansa Stark wishing to suffocate her with tropical fruit, but the same power trip that led her to flash-fry a whole city makes her think she can win Sansa over with feigned “I’m fucking your brother” bonding. What It Actually Means: “I laugh at my own jokes.” We’ve all tried to forget Season Eight, but given how recent it was, it’s amazing that no one remembers the real reason Emilia Clarke made this face. It’s a face that says, “I have to be nice to you, but in my head, I am shoving an entire pineapple down your throat.” It’s the one you put on when you’re seated next to the conspiracy uncle at Thanksgiving, run into an ex and tell them they look greeeeeat or have to convince a toddler to give you back your car keys. What It Means: “Bless your heart.” Everyone knows this face. But make no mistake, this GIF is a rare instance of applause that’s also a threat. It doesn’t work - his own newspaper trashes her, even though, again, she’d be the star of any karaoke bar. (She sounds alright to us, but we’re impressed by particularly on-key seals.) When he finds her reception lackluster, he starts angry clapping, more to chastise the audience than to show his appreciation to his lady love. What It Actually Means: “You suck, but I’m powerful enough to convince everyone else that you don’t.” In this scene of Citizen Kane, the resident in question is watching his shiny new wife perform in the opera house he’s built for her, to the boredom and discomfort of everyone else in the audience. You’ve made such a good point (or done such a good TikTok dance or deep-throated such a good entire pineapple) that the viewer is left with no choice but to throw their meat flaps together so violently you’d think they were fighting. What It Means: Orson Welles’ forceful applause couldn’t be clearer. Well, at least until the whole severed nipple thing. What this meme actually communicates is “My ego won’t let me admit how much I envy you.” If anything, Ginsberg is the model of masculinity here, confident in his talents but still choosing to be the bigger man. He spends the entire episode being jealous of and sabotaging him he thinks about him constantly. He’s 100 percent full of shit when he says he doesn’t think about the other character in this scene, copywriter Michael Ginsberg, and he knows it. Of course, Draper is as broken as the falling man in the opening credits once he hits the ground, and his insecurities run deeper than his sultry baritone. What It Actually Means: He’s an icon of masculinity for the kind of men who regard subtext as artsy bullshit. Don Draper always had a badass zinger for moments like this. When someone’s getting all superior on you, you drop this bad boy on ‘em to let them know the real score.
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