Dean Norris' Gravestone Selfie

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Dean Norris' Gravestone Selfie refers to an image of actor Dean Norris posing in front of a headstone at a graveyard with the word "Whore" inscribed on it, captioned, "A good reason not to cheat on your spouse, especially if you die first." People began photoshopping the headstone that day as an exploitable, comedically changing the inscription. The gravestone appears to actually read "Whorf" and Norris has strategically angled his shoulder over the bottom of the "F" to make it look like an "E."

Origin

On April 14th, 2022, actor Dean Norris, known best as Hank on Breaking Bad, posted a selfie to Twitter^[1] posing in front of a gravestone inscribed "Whore," captioned, "A good reason not to cheat on your spouse, especially if you die first" (shown below). The post gained over 392,000 likes and 35,000 retweets in a day. That same day, Norris tweeted^[8] another selfie from the graveyard, captioned, "I do love an old graveyard."

Spread

The image inspired photoshops in the post's comment section as users replaced the caption with new comedic words and phrases. On that day, Twitter^[2] user @PeptoState posted a version replacing "whore" with "sex GIFS," gaining over 7,400 likes in under 24 hours (shown below). Twitter^[3] user @RadRush_mx posted a template under the comment.

That same day, Twitter^[4] user @iamnottomgreen posted a version where the headstone reads "minerals," a reference to Breaking Bad, gaining over 6,400 likes in under 24 hours. Twitter^[5] user @WhipChatterly posted a photoshop where the headstone reads, "People who say 'rocks,'" another reference to the show, gaining over 1,800 likes (shown below, right).

Twitter^[6] user @thirsty_knife posted a photoshop replacing Dean Norris with Walter White and replacing the inscription with "HANK," gaining over 1,000 likes in under 24 hours (shown below). On April 15th, a screenshot of the original tweet was posted to 9GAG,^[7] gaining over 2,200 upvotes in two hours. Several memes using the format were also posted to /r/okbuddychicanery.^[8]^[9]