Agnes Harkness Winking

Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for WandaVision; read at your own caution.

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Agnes Harkness Winking, also known as Kathryn Hahn Winking, is a reaction image and video of the character Agnes, also known as Agatha Harkness, from the 2021 Marvel superhero comedy WandaVision. Online, use the moment to joke about a well-known open secret or an obvious lie.

Origin

On December 10th, 2020, the trailer for WandaVision debuted on YouTube. ^[1] Forty seconds into the video, the character Agnes (portrayed by Kathryn Hahn) winks in an exaggerated fashion. The post received more than 10 million views in less than six months (shown below).

Roughly two months later, on January 22nd, 2021, the third episode of WandaVision, "Now in Color," aired on Disney+. The shot of Agnes winking comes from this episode (clip below, right).

However, before the episode aired, people were already using the image in memes. On January 9th, 2021, USA Today reporter Alex Biese tweeted a GIF of the moment (shown below). The post received more than 950 likes and 40 retweets in less than two months (shown below).

Spread

Memes and remixes of Agnes winking soon became a regular occurrence on the #AgnesTheNeighbor Twitter hashtag. On February 19th, 2021, for example, Twitter^[2] user @MoonLig40187480 tweeted a remix of the Grant Gustin Next To Oliver Queen's Grave that featured the meme. The post received more than 5,200 likes and 900 retweets in less than two weeks (shown below, left).

Soon the image came to have meaning outside the WandaVision fandom. On February 23rd, Twitter^[3] user @acceptedrose tweeted the image in response to the reality television series The Bachelor. The tweet received more than 3,000 likes and 200 retweets in less than one week (shown below, center).

Two days later, on February 25th, Twitter^[4] user @ tweeted the image with a joke about the "Checkov's Gun" narrative trope. They wrote, "Chekhov writing a gun into the first act of a play." The tweet received more than 75,000 likes and 8,200 retweets in less than three days (shown below, right).

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