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Mourinho Disgust, sometimes called Guy Taking Off Headphones, is an image of professional association football coach Jose Mourinho ripping off a headset in apparent revulsion. The picture is typically used as a reaction image that is paired with captions expressing disgust, often characterizing Mourinho as a person tasked with cyber monitoring and horrified at what he hears or negatively reacting to bad music.

Origin

The original picture was taken by Getty Images^[1] photographer Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno on April 2nd, 2013, at a press conference featuring Mourinho and Real Madrid player Raphael Varane (seen below).

It's unclear when exactly the post first started seeing use as a meme, but it appears to be around the end of 2019. On December 6th, 2019, Twitter^[2] user NyashaChipoka used it in response to a tweet about R. Kelly's sexual misconduct allegations (shown below).

Spread

Over the following year, the template spread across social media. On April 16th, 2020, Redditor JoshC-137 posted an example to the /r/meme^[3] subreddit, gaining over 7,000 points in six months (shown below, left). On March 10th, Redditor link229 then posted another example to /r/memes,^[4] gaining over 21,000 points in six months (shown below, right).

Similar jokes continued through 2020 and into 2021. On February 11th, 2021, Redditor EverySir posted an edit to /r/HolUp^[5] that gained over 24,000 points in roughly two months (shown below, left). On March 17th, Twitter^[6] user @Krakoan4Life then tweeted the image as a reaction to the series Snowfall, gaining over 120 retweets and 840 likes in roughly one month (shown below, right).

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