Blinking White Guy

On December 6, 2013, Giant Bomb's Drew Scanlon was minding his own business during a routine gaming stream when colleague Jeff Gerstmann said "farming with my hoe." Drew blinked. He turned his head. His face asked every question at once: "Did you just...? Did I hear...? Are we not addressing this?"

That moment sat dormant until February 2017, when Twitter discovered the perfect reaction GIF for incredulity. Nearly 50,000 retweets later, Drew Scanlon's double-take became the universal expression for "wait, what?"

The GIF works because the reaction is genuine and specific—not shock, not anger, just pure bewilderment. It's the face you make when someone says something so absurd you need a moment to process it. By 2019, the "First Guy To" multi-panel format extended its reach even further.

Drew Scanlon, for his part, has channeled his viral fame into charity work, proving you can stumble into internet immortality and still do something useful with it.

The blink endures. The confusion is eternal.