About

The Ana de Armas Beach Look, also known as Ana de Armas on a Beach or the Ana de Armas Beach Photo, refers to an image macro and caption meme series using a photograph of actress Ana de Armas wearing a red dress on a beach, looking directly into the camera at the viewer. The photo was commonly paired with the phrasal template "How X Look at Me," in which the "X" is replaced by a desirable and tempting object, person or concept. The reaction image was originally posted to Instagram by the actress in 2020. The photo was taken by actor Ben Affleck when the two were dating that year. Memes using the image spread mostly on Twitter / X in mid-2025.

Origin

On March 17th, 2020, actress Ana de Armas posted a slideshow to her Instagram^[1] account, @ana_d_armas, leading with a photo of herself on a beach, wearing a red dress and looking directly into the camera at the viewer. Over five years, the post received roughly 682,000 likes (shown below).

The image was reportedly taken by actor Ben Affleck when the two were vacationing in Costa Rica while they were dating that year. Outlets like the Daily Mail^[2] published stories on it and released a paparazzi photo of the two taking the picture (shown below).

Spread

In the following years, the photo of Ana de Armas on a beach spread online in viral reposts. For instance, on November 13th, 2023, X^[3] user @TheCinesthetic posted the photo, gaining over 63,000 likes in two years.

On June 17th, 2024, X^[5] user @myster700 tweeted the image, captioned, "This is the type of picture you put in a locket and carry off to war," gaining over 500 likes in a year (shown below).

On August 11th, Instagram^[4] user @epmg.fiji posted the photo, gaining over 1,600 likes in 11 months.

On July 2nd, 2025. X^[6] user @btr1pathi tweeted the photo, captioning it, "How that one unfinished project looks at me at 3 in the morning," gaining over 1,800 likes in 13 days (shown below).

On July 10th, X^[7] user @TheCinesthetic reposted the original photos of Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck taking the photo, gaining over 176,00 likes in five days.

On July 11th, 2025, the X^[8] account @SleeperHQ, the official page of a sports betting app, tweeted the image, captioned, "How Kyle Pitts looks at me in the 8th round of my fantasy draft," receiving over 37,000 likes in four days (shown below).

More iterations using the image went viral on X^[9] in the following days.

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