Olivia Wilde Nodding

About

Olivia Wilde Nodding is a viral video and reaction video in which actress and filmmaker Olivia Wilde can be seen nodding in agreement at a protest alongside filmmaker Michael Moore and actor Mark Ruffalo. The clip stems from an event in August 2017 where Michael Moore bussed the audience of his Broadway show to the Trump Towers to protest the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Olivia Wilde's nod at the end of her brief speech is typically used as an ironic reaction image to signal one's agreement with something.

Origin

On August 15, 2017, American filmmaker Michael Moore bussed the audience of his Broadway show The Terms of My Surrender to a protest outside the Trump Towers in Manhattan, New York. The event came on the heels of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Actor Mark Ruffalo and filmmaker Olivia Wilde were part of the crowd protesting outside the building, as shown in a video posted by Twitter user @eparkrobertson on August 15, 2017 (seen below).^[1]

In front of Trump Tower, oliviawilde</a> shouted these words for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/o8Un5GR1KL

— Eileen Park Robertson 박아린 (@eparkrobertson) August 16, 2017

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On August 26th, 2022, Twitter^[2] user @ctrlvcrs reposted the aforementioned video alongside a caption that read, "the smile after every sentence oh she thought she was getting him fr," gathering over 10,000 likes in eight months (seen below, left). On August 27th, Twitter^[3] user @Nomartito posted the earliest known clipping of her nodding (seen below, right).

On September 20th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user @allreactionvids posted a video of Wild nodding, gathering over 1 million views and 600 likes in seven months (seen below).

Olivia Wilde smiling and nodding reaction video meme pic.twitter.com/Hyk3M5GMnD

— all reaction videos (@allreactionvids) September 20, 2022

In consecutive months, video and GIF versions of the video became popularized as reaction templates. On October 31st, 2022, Twitter^[5] user @theswiftmuseum posted the video in response to news about Taylor Swift topping billboard charts (seen below, left). On April 18th, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @kendallhosseini then posted the GIF as a reaction as well (seen below, right).

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