King Kong Punching a Gorilla GIF / Kong Mewing

About

King Kong Punching a Gorilla GIF or Kong Mewing refers to a scene from the 2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire movie in which a giant gorilla is screaming at King Kong, who knocks down the animal in a single punch. A GIF of the scene was posted on Twitter / X in late March 2024, sparking comparisons with other memes and slang like mewing, the Small Brain Man Screaming at Big Brain Man and the Soyjaks vs. Chads meme.

Origin

On March 30th, 2024, X^[1] user @xbox_awesome posted a speed-up GIF of a scene from the 2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire movie in which a giant gorilla is trying to intimidate King Kong, who knocks down the animal to the ground in a single punch. The tweet (shown below) amassed more than 2 million views and 66,000 likes in a day.

Spread

Shortly after @xbox_awesome's tweet went viral, people started to use the scene in memes about King Kong's mewing. For example, on March 30th, 2024, TikTok^[2] @lion_blue095 posted an edit adding the Soyjaks vs. Chads meme overlayed on the scene (shown below, left), which garnered more than 5,000 plays and 411 likes in a day. On the same day, TikTok^[3] user @caliph_37 posted a similar edit showing Kong doing the "mewing" tongue exercise. The post (shown below, right) amassed roughly 55,000 plays and 2,800 likes in a day.

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