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12 Hours After My Shift Shrugging Nurse GIF refers to a reaction meme and GIF featuring a disheveled Black nurse named Britney shrugging and turning to walk out of frame after finishing a 12-hour nursing shift. The meme originates from a before-and-after style TikTok featuring a group of nurses before and after their 12-hour shifts, with Britney introducing herself last and appearing with messy hair and a tired expression in the "after" section of her clip. A GIF version of the clip is often used to express exhaustion or being exasperated online.

Origin

TikToker^[1] @queenakadia posted a nearly two-minute-long video showing a sequence of nurses introducing themselves before and after a 12-hour shift, with Britney appearing last and appearing the most disheveled of the group. The video was posted in November 2022 and has since been removed from TikTok,^[5] but it can still be accessed via a December 31st, 2022, reupload by YouTuber^[2] shook.

Britney later posted an update explaining what happened during her shift. The original video no longer exists on TikTok, however, TikToker^[4] @9accountsgone reposted the clip on December 1st, 2022, gathering over 4 million plays and 260,000 likes in two years. Britney no longer posts on her own TikTok, @byoung2006.^[3]

Spread

Several TikTokers posted videos commemorating Britney in 2022 and 2023, as seen in a December 2nd, 2022, TikTok^[4] posted by user @en.editss that edited the footage of Britney to make it more emotionally charged. The video gathered over 900,000 plays and 90,000 likes in two years.

Jokes about what happened to Britney during her 12-hour shift being an "unsolved mystery" continued on TikTok, as seen in a December 3rd, 2022, TikTok^[6] by user @chaozshifter that gathered over 300,000 plays and 35,000 likes in two years.

A GIF of Britney shrugging and turning to leave was reposted to Tenor^[7] by user koryspellz on December 5th, 2022 (shown below).

By 2024, the GIF had become a prevalent reaction meme on sites like Twitter / X,^[8] as seen in a December 2nd, 2024, tweet by user @charlestoyou that read, "Gotta be a pretend adult and act like I know what benefits I’m enrolling myself into, again," gathering 37,000 likes in three months.

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