Jumbotron Proposal Reaction

About

Jumbotron Proposal Reaction refers to the face of a man who appeared shocked and thrilled behind a man proposing to his girlfriend at a Dallas Mavericks basketball game. The moment appeared on the arena's large screen and went viral afterwards.

Origin

On October 28th, 2018, during a Dallas Mavericks game in American Airlines Stadium, Keith Houseworth proposed to his girlfriend Panda Green while the stadium ran a "kiss cam" segment. During the moment, another man, Jonathan Miller, ran behind the couple excitedly awaiting her response (shown below).

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The video was tweeted out by Bleacher Report and quickly went viral, gaining over 37,000 retweets and 122,000 likes (shown below).

Asked if the couple were upset Miller may have intruded on their moment, Green stated, "Whether people think he stole the show or not is good with us because what matters is that Keith and I are happy that we are engaged and ready to start our new lives together… John [sic] and his friends were just as excited as we were!"^[1] The couple invited Miller to the wedding afterwards.

Online, Twitter users took Miller's face and turned it into a reaction image. User @ashjones19979 tweeted an image of Miller's face saying "This is a mood" and gained over 30 retweets and 520 likes (shown below, left). User @joejhoyt tweeted the picture with "When its 12:01 and the direct deposit hits" (shown below, right).

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