LSU Stare Girl

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LSU Stare Girl refers to an image of a female fan of the Louisiana State University football team looking exasperated as her team was losing to Alabama University 22-0 at the time of the photograph. The image was paired with humorous captions and jokes.

Origin

On November 3rd, 2018, Alabama University faced Louisiana State University in a college football game at LSU. At one point in the game, as Alabama was handily beating LSU 22-0, the CBS sports broadcast panned over the crowd, during which one girl was seen giving a cold-eyed stare at the camera (shown below).

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After the moment aired, it was quickly joked about on Twitter. NBC Sports tweeted that the girl was the "Jim Halpert" of college football, comparing her to a character from The Office (shown below, left). User @JasonIsbell made an It Will Be Fun, They Said joke, gaining over 1,800 retweets and 14,000 likes (shown below, right).

Twitter user @RJ_Writes pointed out that the girl next to the LSU Stare girl was also in on the act (shown below, left). LSU Stare Girl was later identified as Kaileigh Thomas, who tweeted about her viral fame and gained over 3,200 retweets and 29,000 likes (shown below, right). The meme was covered by 247sports,^[1] USA Today,^[2] and The Athletic.^[3]

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