Emmanuel Macron Grinning

About

Emmanuel Macron Grinning is a series of image macros based on a photograph of French President Emmanuel Macron hugging Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Due to the seemingly malevolent look on Macron's face, people joke about Macron having sinister intention online.

Origin

On March 9th, 2018, Hindustan Times^[1] photographer Vipin Kumar published a photograph of President Emmanuel Macron hugging Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he leaving a plane. In the photograph, Macron can be seen grinning (shown below).

Spread

Two days later, on March 11th, 2018, Twitter ^[2] user @AisiTaisiDemo tweeted the image with the caption, "Season Finale cliffhanger ending shot." The post (shown below, left) received more than 1,600 retweets and 5,800 likes in two days.

Over the next few days, more users added captions to the photograph (examples below).

On March 12th, Twitter^[3] published a Moments page about the meme. Additionally, several media outlets covered the popularity of the photography, including TIME,^[4] The Indian Express,^[5] The India Times^[6] and more.

That day, Redditor ^[7] ajx_711 posted the image with the caption "When you let your teammate die so you can have his loot" in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below) received more than 1,600 points (97% upvoted) and 30 comments in 24 hours.

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