Eating Cheetos With Chopsticks

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About

Eating Cheetos With Chopsticks refers to the practice of consuming the cheese-puff snack Cheetos with chopsticks, ostensibly for the purpose of not getting the powder covering the snacks on one's fingers. The practice was popularized by a viral photo of actor Oscar Isaac eating Cheetos with chopsticks.

Origin

On March 5th, 2010, webcomic Wondermark^[1] posted a comic referencing the practice (shown below).

Spread

On March 24th, 2011, the Facebook page Eating Cheetos With Chopsticks^[2] launched. This caught the attention of Buzzfeed^[3] on May 21st, 2012. This then led to coverage of the practice in Bon Appetit.^[4] In January of 2015, an Actual Advice Mallard about the practice was posted on imgflip^[6] (shown below, left). On April 30th, 2015, an Imgur^[5] post by 420blazeitfaggot illustrated the practice (shown below, right).

On January 20th, 2017, Panic! at the Disco singer Brendon Urie posted a video of himself doing the practice (shown below).

Oscar Isaac Photo

On March 19th, 2016, Twitter account @OscarIsaacPosts^[7] uploaded a picture of actor Oscar Isaac eating Cheetos with chopsticks. The post gained over 330 retweets and 500 likes (shown below).

The image quickly gained notoriety. The day it was posted, Tumblr user snoopchien^[9] posted the image, gaining over 162,000 notes (shown below). The following day, Jezebel^[8] wrote an article about the image.

A since-tweet featuring the three leads of the Star Wars sequels cast posted by @reysridley featuring Daisy Ridley and John Boyega working out while Isaac ate Cheetos (shown below).