Emma Stone Winning Golden Globe Award

About

Emma Stone Winning Golden Globe Award refers to a viral video of actress Emma Stone running on stage at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards after winning "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture" for the film Poor Things. The video of her looking shocked and running to accept the award gained memetic usage on Twitter / X in early January 2024, with many people adding captions that followed the phrasal template, "Me if there was an award for X."

Origin

On January 7th, 2024, the 81st Golden Globe Awards aired on American television.^[1] Actress Emma Stone won "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture" for her role in the black comedy film Poor Things.^[1] On January 8th, the X^[2] account @enews tweeted a clip of Stone reacting to the announcement and running up on stage, gaining over 2,100 likes in three days (shown below).

Getting to the stage is no easy A. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/bjiCq7phtd

— E! News (@enews) January 8, 2024

Later on January 8th, the video was retweeted by the X^[3] account @PopBase, gaining roughly 107,000 likes in three days. Then, on January 9th, X^[4] user @vigilantelor captioned the video, "me if there was an award for not shutting up abt taylor swift," gaining over 13,000 likes in two days and becoming the first viral memetic usage (shown below).

me if there was an award for not shutting up abt taylor swift pic.twitter.com/AD0kFS7Qmm

— ًً (@vigilantelor) January 8, 2024

Spread

Soon after, on January 9th, 2024, various X users posted viral memes with the video as the format spread. For instance, on January 9th, X^[5] user @cherryangelkiwi added a "winning an award" caption related to liking men who don't care about her, receiving over 64,000 likes in two days (shown below).

me if liking men who don't give a fuck about me was an award pic.twitter.com/NiYQzYOHDS

— meg⸆⸉ 🏹 (@cherryangelkiwi) January 8, 2024

On January 10th, 2024, X^[6] user @justInwuah captioned the video, "me when someone likes my letterboxd review," gaining over 24,000 likes in one day (shown below).

me when someone likes my letterboxd review pic.twitter.com/1eHoXafT1x

— ❦ (@justInwuah) January 9, 2024

Memetic usage of the video as a reaction video persisted on Twitter / X going into January 2024.

Various Examples

me if there was an award for getting stoned every night pic.twitter.com/OdBGU4N7xq

— mar (@itsmariannnna) January 9, 2024

me on my way to collect my “cares too much about percabeth at her grown age” award 🙌pic.twitter.com/7p2TXOJV1p

— rhaenicent lands on top (@TABOGENS) January 10, 2024

me if there was an award for most diarrheas pic.twitter.com/ZoH8wuFg9G

— Josh (@FLITTER) January 9, 2024

men at baggage claim when they find the opening for the carousel pic.twitter.com/rAGLo4SLj9

— sally darr (@sallydarr) January 10, 2024

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