Bored Ben Affleck (2023 Grammys)

About

Bored Ben Affleck is a reaction image and GIF of American actor Ben Affleck during his attendance at the 65th annual Grammy Awards ceremony on February 5th, 2023. The video of the actor's bored facial expressions, captured by cameras while he was sitting next to his wife Jennifer Lopez, rapidly went viral on social media after the 2023 Grammys, generating a series of GIF caption memes and mocking tweets in the following days similar to earlier memes like Sad Affleck.

Origin

On the night of February 5th, 2023, Ben Affleck^[2] attended the 65th annual Grammy Awards^[1] alongside his wife Jennifer Lopez,^[3] and at several points, Affleck's facial expressions were captured by the camera as people perceived him as seeming bored or unenthused with being at the event. His drab look did not go unnoticed by folks on social media platforms like Twitter, with users quickly reacting to Affleck during the broadcast. Throughout the evening, people like Twitter user @SpencerAlthouse^[4] commented on the actor's face saying he was probably having a bad day. The tweet, uploaded on February 5th, received 1 million views and 27,800 like in 13 hours (seen below).

Spread

Other memes about Ben Affleck's facial expressions began rapidly spreading online throughout the night, with people suggesting it appeared he was having the worst time of his life at the award ceremony. For example, on February 5th, 2023, Twitter user @autumnvelvets^[5] shared a clip of a sad dog to represent Affleck at the 2023 Grammys, which garnered over 279,000 views and 11,500 likes in 13 hours (shown below).

Every time the camera pans to Ben Affleck #Grammys pic.twitter.com/3jeiQS3woq

— wine mom yor forger🍷 (@autumnvelvets) February 6, 2023

The media also began to cover Affleck's seemingly bored demeanor the night of February 5th, with a Newsweek^[6] article describing Aflleck's attendance as if he appeared "as though he could barely muster a rhythmic nod of the head as the events of the night proceeded."

Also that night as Bored Ben Affleck memes continued to spread, Twitter user @elamin88^[7] noticed that each time the camera focused on the actor, he was perceivably getting increasingly exasperated. The post received 27,700 likes and 1,434 retweets in less than 24 hours (seen below).

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