Andrew Garfield Beach Transition

About

Andrew Garfield Beach Transition, also known as Andrew Garfield Beach Meme, refers to an exploitable video template that transitions between two videos of actor Andrew Garfield (known for his role as Spider-Man) in which he becomes older and more handsome. The first video is usually Garfield looking at himself in a bathroom mirror from the movie The Amazing Spider-Man and the second video shows Garfield on the beach rising from a bed, originally from the "Andrew Garfield for GQ x Saint Laurent" video. The meme trended on TikTok in mid-2023, where meme creators object labeled both versions of Garfield. The videos were often paired with a slowed + reverb remix of the song "Moonlight" by Kali Uchis as the TikTok sound.

Origin

On June 25th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @amazingpete3 posted a video that transitioned between two videos of Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield, set to a slowed remix of the song "Moonlight" by Kali Uchis.^[2] The first video was labeled, "me around the girl I like," and the second video was labeled, "me around the girl I have 0 interest in." Over the course of 16 days, the video gained roughly 1.6 million plays and 264,700 likes (shown below).

Within the aforementioned video, the first video that the TikToker used was a scene from The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) in which Peter Parker (played by Garfield) was waking up and getting ready for his day (YouTube^[3] upload shown below, left). The second video that the TikToker used was a video Andrew Garfield made with the brands GQ and Saint Laurent in November 2022 (YouTube^[4] upload shown below, right).

Spread

Going into July 2023, various meme creators on TikTok utilized the same format for memetic exploitation. On July 5th, 2023, TikToker^[5] @danny.mccauley posted a video that compared being around girls with blue eyes vs. girls with brown eyes, earning roughly 458,100 plays and 66,400 likes in six days (shown below, left). On July 6th, 2023, TikToker^[6] @_myka_ posted an iteration about saying "no balls" in an argument, earning roughly 1.5 million plays and 378,800 likes in five days (shown below, right).

Continuing into July 2023, the format gained increased usage by various TikTokers.^[2] Reposts of the template also surfaced on YouTube^[7] amid the same timeframe.

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