As you might have guessed from the six pages of image results for “Keanu” on FilmDrunk, the Sad Keanu/Loitering Keanu/Cupcake Keanu meme is near the top of my list of favorite things ever, just behind Diora Baird’s boobs and white people with dreadlocks getting hit by cars. Someone finally got around to asking Keanu about it, and although he hadn’t heard of it, he approves of it in theory (sidenote: everything I’ve ever heard about Keanu suggests that he’s a really cool dude). Though if you ask me, Keanu has nothing to do with this meme. He’s only the vessel through which the Internet Gods prove their munificence.
[From Vulture, who caught up with Keanu at the Woodstock Film Festival]
You’re taking over the Internet. Have you seen all the “Sad Keanu” stuff out there?
My publicist showed me the photo, but no.There’s not one photo. There are millions. You’re Photoshopped next to kittens and into Pulp Fiction and next to the cast of The Breakfast Club, and in a million different ways. Have you seen those?
Oh, that’s funny! No, no, I haven’t seen them.There are millions, really. Google “Sad Keanu.” You haven’t?
[Laughs.] No.Seriously, though, this is one of the reasons I think one of the big appeals of you as an actor is that people are always straining to figure out what’s on your mind, what you’re thinking, why you’re sad … There’s thousands of people doing this.
Wow. So, what, now they’re putting me next to other objects?Yes! For instance, right now I’m looking at you in some Banksy graffiti, you next to a panda.
That’s so funny.You with a cheerleader, but you don’t notice her …
Oh, that’s funny. So they like take paparazzi pictures and re-contextualize them? Funny.Exactly.
Well, it sounds like harmless, good clean fun. [...] Yeah, I haven’t seen them. But given the scope and scale of what can happen out there, that sounds like an all right one. It sounds conceptually funny. [Laughs.]
There you have it. Keanu memes make Keanu smile, while sandwiches make him sad and he finds cupcakes confusing. I love you, Keanu. I would buy you a thousand sandwiches and we could loiter in front of a 7-11, eating them together.
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“Munificence”?
Get the rope.
Keanu can loiter between raindrops.
Keanu had actually seen one of the many meme-inspiring pictures before, but when asked what he thought all he had to remark was “Whoa, that dude seems really bummed about that sandwich.”
Wait wait wait…WAIT a fucking tic. You are telling me that there is a star actor in Hollywood that hasn’t googled themself in the last year? If you told me that before this, I’d have thought you were Jay Cutler shaking off that sack he gave up brushing his teeth this morning.
Get the rope? GET TEH FUR-LINED HANDCUFFS!
Oh, and as an aside, The Mighty Feklahr never doubted Keanu was a “cool” guy…you would have to be cool to be some of the movies he has been in. Even if he has never personally “Vajazzled” Him with one of his performances per se, Keanu has played his role in the great movie making Hollywood machine rather well.
SAD KEANU is an anagram for –> u as naked.
Seriously, though, this is one of the reasons I think one of the big appeals of you as an actor is that people are always straining to figure out what’s on your mind, what you’re thinking, why you’re sad …
“Why I’m sad? Oh, well that’s because I’ve devoted my life and career earnings to make sure my sister doesn’t die. Want to ask me about my childhood pets next?”
and also –> ake d anus.
So which one of those sad Keanu pictures was taken at Bill’s funeral?
Too soon!
(sidenote: everything I’ve ever heard about Keanu suggests that he’s a really cool dude)
True. I read that he gave ‘Pocketful of Kryptonite’ 4-and-a-half Whoas.
Great, now whenever Keanu looks thoughtful around food, I’ll wonder whether it’s genuine now that he’s been made aware.
No way, Perplexed with a Pancake Keanu, I just can’t trust it wasn’t staged…
Munificence is the word of the day.
Munificent was the sister of the antagonist from ‘Sleeping Beauty’.
She was a lot nicer.
Aw, that’s cute.
See, Xzibit? That’s how you react to a meme.
I desire to place queefs in your munificent fu fu.
I’m a huge fan of the sad Keanu meme, but when you find out the source of his melancholy, it really is pretty fucking sad.
He was going to have a baby with his girlfriend, but it was stillborn, and his girlfriend then subsequently died after sniffing coke at a party thrown by Marylin Manson and flying out of the windshield of her car after she crashed into a row of parked cars on her way home.
I mean, for fuck’s sake, his girlfriend was out sniffing coke with the dude from Mr. Belvedere. I’d be sad if my girlfriend even listened to his music, let alone hung out with the guy. My deepest sympathies, Keanu…