About

When Your Wife Thinks She's The Coach refers to a viral video of a woman celebrating a point scored by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). The video posted by her wife in early 2023 is paired with the caption, "When your wife thinks she's the coach," which was later turned into an exploitable meme format about people acting like experts in their various interests like manga, TV shows, movies, etc.

Origin

On February 13th, 2023, TikTok^[1] user @iliveonvacation uploaded a video of her wife watching a football game and celebrating like she's the coach after her team, the Philadelphia Eagles, scored a point. The moment (shown below) amassed over 324,000 plays and 14,600 likes in a year.

Spread

TikToker @iliveonvacation's video started to be used as an exploitable and reaction video on TikTok and Twitter / X over the following year after it was posted. For instance, on August 23rd, 2023, TikTok^[2] user @sugurucult uploaded a video of their reaction while reading the Jujutsu Kaisen manga. The video (shown below, left) amassed more than 1,200 plays and 112 likes in six months.

On September 10th, TikTok^[3] user @pissflavoredpopsicles also made a meme with the video and added the overlay text "how I'm bouta be watching the VMAs," which received over 35,000 plays and 12,800 likes in five months.

On January 7th, 2024, X^[4] user @riaslost used the content as a reaction video to celebrate her favorite actors winning awards at the 81st Golden Globe Awards. The post (shown below) received roughly 26,000 likes and 2,800 retweets in a day.

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