Living Amongst The Normies

About

Living Amongst The Normies is a reaction image and image macro using a still from the 2023 film The Killer that features the lead character, played by Michael Fassbender, musing on his isolation from others. The image was widely used online following the release of the movie because of its embrace of the term "normies" and depiction of what many perceived as sigma male isolation.

Origin

The Killer, directed by David Fincher, is a Netflix film which was released on November 10, 2023 on Netflix.^[4] The film is about a professional assassin who listens to The Smiths constantly and botches a hit, leading to complications. The scene showing Fassbender on a bus narrates the assassin's internal monologue.^[5]

The earliest findable version of the screenshot was posted to X on November 10th, 2023, by @bacon5237, earning over 1,800 likes over the course of three days (seen below).^[1]

Spread

The meme was used as a reaction image on other corners of X, as people shared their fandom for generally niche topics. For example, @RufusTSuperfly posted on November 11th a version of the image about liking classic films, earning over 18,000 likes and 2,500 reposts over the course of two days (seen below).^[2] The State of the Scene podcast also used the meme to poke fun at fans of pop punk music, earning over 1,500 likes also on November 11th (seen below right).^[3] There was spread, although less viral, on Reddit as well.^[6]

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