Will Smith Slap Meme: The Ultimate Collection
Featuring the best "Will Smith Slap Memes" from around the web.
It was the moment from the 2022 Oscars that launched a thousand memes. Mere hours after actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock across the face for joking about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, the Internet saw the birth of a new meme.
We've scoured social media to compile the best of the memes for your enjoyment.
See also:
- Will Smith, Vladimir Putin and Batman Venn Diagram
- The Wrong Will Smith
- Will Smith Slap Meme Generator
Digital artist @doctorphotograph parodied the DVD cover of Will Smith's 2005 movie Hitch, where he played a professional "date doctor" whose job is to teach men how to woo women.
Interestingly, there was actually a slap in the movie: Will Smith gave Kevin James, who played his bumbling client, a slap across the face when James danced goofily.
Everybody Hates Chris was a sitcom starring Chris Rock that ran for four season from 2005 to 2009. The distinctive logo with green lettering with blue outline is superimposed on a screen capture of the Oscars slapping incident.
If you're wondering about the title of the sitcom, it's a play on "Everybody Loves Raymond," a popular sitcom featuring comedian Ray Romano which ran from 1996 to 2005.
Most memes are static images, but @ParafoxStudio created one based on the Super Smash Bros video game.
Any meme worth its salt would sooner or later show up in brick form. Here's the Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock in LEGO.
That was quick! Italian tattoo artist Giovanni Bracciodieta created the Will Smith Slap tattoo just a couple of days after the 2022 Oscars.
Now, the moment not only will live forever in pop culture's collective consciousness, it'll also live forever on someone's skin!
One of the first Will Smith slap memes that went viral shows how "Me trying to enjoy the weekend" got slapped by "Monday."
Wherever memes go, indie fan-art follows. Here's Everybody Hates Chris by indie artist sk8rdan.
The Will Smith slap is poised to replace the Batman Slapping Robin meme, which came from an actual comic panel DC Comic's World Finest #153 in 1965.
It's the meme in Nintendo Gameboy format! Here, the slap is shown as a Pokemon battle, where Will Smith "used ROCK SMASH!"
A mashup of the Will Smith slap incident with our favorite TV series. Here, it's Homer Simpson slapping his neighbor Ned Flanders when they were lost at sea in the episode "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" (Season 5 Episode 8).
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This one hits close to home: High gas prices are slapping everyone's wallets!
Bitch Slap Prince by Boggs Nicolas features the text in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's graffiti style.
Channeling Freddie Mercury of the rock band Queen, here's the lyrics of We Will Rock You in meme format.
Here, Chris Rock is like Sonic the Hedgehog that loses his golden rings whenever he got hit.
Inspired by a true story, here's a parody of Will Smith's 2006 movie The Pursuit of Happyness, where Smith played Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman who went on to become a successful stockbroker.
In the movie poster parody, a pummeled Chris Rock replaced Gardner's son, played by Will's son Jaden Smith.
Was the slap heard around the multiverse? In this meme, Doctor Strange opens a portal to let Will Smith slap the Marvel villain Thanos.
Whether the slap was staged or not reminded us a bit of pro wrestling.
Gotta slap, er, catch 'em all! In this rendition, Smith throws a Poke Ball to the catch the Pokemon Espeon.
Everyone at the Oscars were aghast ... except Ryan Gosling!
The "Distracted Boyfriend" meme tells us that everyone's focus was off the Ukraine War ...
... so someone made it into Volodymyr Zelenskyy slapping Vladimir Putin!
And lastly, let's end with something that Will Smith wished he could do to everyone who watched the Oscars: take out the Neuralyzer from his 1997 movie Men in Black and wipe their memory of the incident!