Mini Keanu Reeves

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Mini Keanu Reeves, also known as Midget Keanu Reeves and Short Keanu Reeves, refers to a still image of Keanu Reeves from the E3 2019 Cyberpunk 2077 presentation, edited to make the actor appear disproportionately short. Online, the image has been circulated as a blursed image and used as an exploitable.

Origin

On June 9th, 2019, actor Keanu Reeves presented the upcoming CD Projekt Red-developed video game Cyberpunk 2077 at the Microsoft's E3 2019 Xbox press conference.^[1] On the same day, Twitter user @KojiMads tweeted a still image of Keanu Reeves standing on the stage, writing "he really just stood like this and everyone went nuts" (shown below, left).^[2] Several hours later, Twitter^[3] user @JT_0907 tweeted an edited version of the photograph showing Keanu Reeves with disproportionately short stature (shown below. right). @KojiMads reposted the image and received over 50 retweets and 370 likes in one week.^[4]

Spread

In the following days, multiple reposts of the image appeared on Twitter,^[5] 4chan^[6] and Reddit.^[7] For example, on June 10th, 2019, an anonymous 4chan user posted the image with a caption referencing My Turn on the Xbox meme.^[6] On June 11th, 2019, Redditor illufixe posted the image to /r/blursedimages subreddit, where it gained over 1,300 upvotes in one week.^[7]

On June 10th, a version of the image captioned Breathtaking was posted by Twitter user @Thaddeus_Hamlet (shown below, left).^[8] On June 11th, Redditor Howboutnoy posted a My Turn on the Xbox meme to /r/memes subreddit, gaining over 6,000 upvotes in six days (shown below, center).^[9] On June 12th, 2019, the image was repost to /r/bossfight subreddit as "Little brother Keanu",^[10] with fan art posted by Redditor Lorpo314 on June 13th (shown below, right).^[11]

On June 12th, 2019, YouTuber Pyrocynical used the image as a thumbnail for his E3 2019 review video, promoting the further spread of the meme (shown below, left).^[12] In the following days, multiple memes based on the image appeared on Reddit and other online platforms. On June 17th, 2019, YouTuber PewDiePie used the image as a video thumbnail (shown below, right).^[13]