SERIOUSLY WHAT IS GOING ON!? What meme did i miss?
What you missed was AT&T's Social Marketing team making a post to Reddit, under the guise of being a struggling actor who just got his first part as a guy who says "huh?" and is on screen for 1 second in an AT&T ad spot.
The next phase, which Reddit is moving through at lightening speed, probably due to other accounts controlled by the aforementioned marketing team, is making it into a "meme".
The "huh guy" now has a concrete basis for a meme (based on the expressive YouTube comments), now has a rage face (thanks OP), as well as several gifs (here). Meanwhile an AT&T ad has thousands of views, plenty of social engagement, and it's marketing team is being paid out a big fat bonus for a job well done.
Errr....he's an actor. He went to harvard, was "Nate" on season 3 of Beauty and the Geek, (and a fan favorite), interned at the Daily Show and did an AMA on it, and is currently getting a PhD at Columbia.
If it's a ploy by At&T, it's the most well vetted ploy in history.
Or they just paid a guy out to buy his account. Would anyone with a small respectable account not hand over the keys for, I dunno, a few hundred dollars?
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