Blue Eyes Slander

About

Blue Eyes Slander refers to a series of jokes and memes about the perceived tendency of people with blue eyes (particularly light-blue) to have unnerving gazes, with many jokes about blue eyes revolving around the stereotype that people with them need to make sure their eyes are noticed. One of the earliest viral memes about blue eyes featured a picture of Miley Cyrus in which she can be seen shooting a piercing gaze into the camera. Another prominent meme about blue eyes is an MS Paint drawing of a cartoon with blue eyes. In 2023, several meme trends about blue eyes went viral, including the catchphrase "I'm literally shaking, buy her brown contacts PLEASE," which was posted in reply to a video featuring a long-haired dachshund with uncommonly blue eyes. Additionally, another common catchphrase associated with blue eyes is "Okay girl we see them damn."

Origin

Jokes about how people with blue eyes tend to have particularly piercing gazes have existed for several years on the internet, with a notable early example being a particular photograph of singer and former child actress Miley Cyrus. The photo of Cyrus was taken at the 2008 Grammy Awards on February 10th, 2008 (seen below, left).^[1] October 18th, 2018, X user @brianlunn posted the image with a caption mocking people with blue eyes, gaining over 38,000 retweets and 161,000 likes in roughly five years (seen below, right). The account has since been suspended.

Another prevalent meme about people with blue eyes is a simplistic MS Paint drawing of a cartoon with his hands folded. The image was posted by X user @Pubby_Kat, gathering over 6,100 retweets and 59,900 likes before being deleted (seen below).^[2]

Spread

Sometime in 2020, the catchphrase "Okay damn, we see them" began to circulate as a way to refer to people with light eyes with piercing gazes. The earliest known record of such a post is a screenshot of a now-deleted X post shared to iFunny on April 8th, 2020, by user @sad_payable_tygenki_2020 (seen below, left).^[5]

The catchphrase "we see them" has continued to be used to refer to people with light eyes and blue eyes since, with a March 22nd, 2023, X^[6] post by @islandthembo using the caption "Damn we see them," and gathering over 12,000 likes in four months (seen below, right).

In April 2023, a screenshot from an unknown TikTok of a brown long-haired dachshund with uncommonly blue eyes received a comment that read, "I'm literally shaking buy her brown contacts pls." A screenshot of the comment was shared on Tumblr^[4] by @heartheater in April 2022, although the post has since been deleted (seen below, left).

Memes about people with blue eyes continued into the early 2020s, with X^[3] user @Yokiter posting art they made about people with blue eyes on November 12th, 2022, gathering over 3,000 likes in a year (seen below, right)

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