Simone Biles being startled by something became a new, gold medal meme
New Simone Biles meme alert!
Simone Biles may be done competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics after a medal-filled performance, but she’s still very much in the spotlight.
She’s hanging out with Elmo, she’s doing interviews, and one moment from the Olympics has become a perfect meme that very much deserves its own gold medal.
It looks like she’s chatting with someone while warming up, when something startles her. And lots of people have turned that into a meme, focused on when something startles or surprises you.
Here’s a roundup as the meme continues to make its way around the interwebs, much of it through X (formerly Twitter):
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 pic.twitter.com/yhm3PkBGZe
— Holly Anderson
(@HollyAnderson) August 6, 2024
Mahomes when the safety comes down to cap the slot pic.twitter.com/YBdAMeec9V
— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) August 8, 2024
velociraptors when you drop a ladle pic.twitter.com/mI86p8Mr2P
— slate (@PleaseBeGneiss) August 8, 2024
When I'm outside of Cincy and I hear "WHO DEY!" pic.twitter.com/UqRXB2j3a1
— ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? (@BengalsCaptain) August 8, 2024
When you hear someone say 90 day fiancé in public #90dayfiance pic.twitter.com/LMG9rI7Fmz
— SHABOOTY
: #90DayFiance
(@SHABOOTY) August 7, 2024
When I hear one of the dogs start to make the throw up sounds pic.twitter.com/74lQh9Ebol
— Caroline Darney (@cwdarney) August 8, 2024