Simone Biles Turning and Staring

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Simone Biles Turning and Staring, also known as Simone Biles Looking at Camera or Simone Biles Staring refers to a viral video of American Olympic gymnast Simone Biles turning her head and looking directly into the camera before competing at a balance beam event at the 2024 Summer Paris Olympics. The video of Simone Biles turning her head and staring at the viewer went viral on Twitter / X in August 2024, quickly becoming a reaction video and meme. The video received captions mostly related to someone or something becoming instantly aware and focused on something happening.

Origin

On August 5th, 2024, X^[1] user @HollyAnderson tweeted a video of U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles before competing in a balance beam event, showing her turning her head and looking directly into the camera. The X user captioned the video, "If she had ever needed another career, Simone would have made an amazing librarian/nun/middle school teacher of any kind, look at that predator vision whip around." The tweet received over 95,000 likes in three days (shown below).

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The video amassed viral posts in the following days. For instance, on August 6th, 2024, X^[2] user @estalksfootball captioned the video, "me when i’m in public and hear people talking about women’s football," receiving over 6,900 likes in two days (shown below, left).

On August 7th, X^[3] user @TheGymQuinn tweeted an iteration, captioned, "My dog when she hears me open the fridge," receiving over 24,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

The video continued to amass viral usage on X in the following days. For instance, on August 7th, 2024, X^[4] user @JennaCottrell captioned it, "when someone asks if you wanna get ice cream," receiving over 36,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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