Ben Affleck apparently knew he was becoming a Grammy meme in real time
"He knew, and he also chose just not to change his expression," said a seat-filler who was placed next to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
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The meme cycle moves fast, but Bennifer moves faster—a skill we would imagine comes with the territory when you can’t even buy 4 measly Dunkin’ iced coffees and a whole box of munchkins without the internet eating it up.
The latest and greatest Ben Affleck face came from Sunday’s Grammy Awards broadcast, during which the actor and Dunkin’ spokesman’s obvious disinterest went almost immediately viral. Armchair psychiatrists put forth their diagnoses. Lip readers took a stab at sussing out the seemingly tense conversation between Affleck and JLo. But thanks to a little good old-fashioned on-the-ground reporting, we finally have the real story. And it’s… not really as much of a doozy as people may have hoped.
Our best answer to the burning question of whether Bennifer was mid-fight the entire Grammys or that’s just How His Face Is comes from a user named @almostanna on Tik T0k (via Town & Country), who worked as a Grammys seat-filler and was seated next to Ben and Jen for a portion of the broadcast.
“I didn’t know the meme about Ben Affleck being upset at awards shows, like I didn’t know that was a thing. We also didn’t talk to them because Ben Affleck didn’t look happy,” she said in her video.
Still, it seems like the now-infamous exchange between the two was nothing more than a good bit of marital banter that unfortunately (or not, depending on how much you love Ben Affleck memes) got caught on camera. “The whole time they were cute and shit,” said the seat-filler, before continuing:
J.Lo showed Ben Affleck the phone and was like, ‘Oh my god, honey, look at this meme circulating about you,’ and he was like, ‘Oh god, this again.’ Like, he knew during the performance that he was a meme. Like he knew, and he also chose just not to change his expression. I love how unbothered that is. So, I know that she was like on her phone and saw it and was like, ‘Honey this is so funny, look at this,’ and he was like ‘Jesus Christ.’
In conclusion, “they were super lovey dove-y, like their hands were always intertwined… so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh my god, this is going to lead to divorce,’” she said. Good for them, although we’re not gonna lie—we would love to see what kind of bonkers tattoo this particular breakup would have resulted in.
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Yeah if anyone actually watches the video it’s pretty damn clear that he’s doing a bit acting disinterested because he knows Trevor Noah is right there and he’s decided to entertain himself.
Back in the day we all thought the internet would revolutionize the world as we knew it. Everybody would have equal access to all information, the world would be better!What did we get? Goddamn Twitter and memes in real time.Fucking clown shoes!
A bunch of no-talent ass clowns.
Boobs and kitties.
Boobs and kitties.Sometimes at the same time even!
If we just stop at porn site and never develop any social media apps, everything will be fine. Geocities provide you with enough space for porn!
As always, you make a very valid point.
Maybe if more people had visited my Angelfire Dragon Ball fansite, Web 2.0 wouldn’t have turned out to be such a massive disappointment.
I had tens of visitors to my The Tick Geocities webpage…TENS!
Me? I had DOZENS….::buffs fingernails on my lapel::
You may be onto something, Yellowfoot.
I vividly remember a lively classroom discussion in 1995/1996 about how the internet was going to unite the world like never before(!). No more war, ever, because we could engage and empathize with citizens of other countries in real time. Propaganda? GONE. We’d have broad access to high-quality information and data. Honestly I’m impressed at how super-accurate our predictions were. Good job, rural farm town kids! Nailed it.
I love the idea of the internet allowing for more empathy. If there’s one thing people express online, it’s empathy.
Props for your class not heading straight into a dumpster fire?I mean, by the mid-Nineties Internet Porn and “Nigerian Prince” scams were absolutely a thing….
Aw, but it’s sweet that you had such hope!
Even in the mid-’90s people made jokes about how the internet was mostly for looking at porn and chatting with idiots.
I give them 18 months…although I would be dancing on that table and every table if I were fucking Jennifer Lopez.
Grammar please. Are you doing her or are you being her? No judgement either way.
Gods, I hope not. I know almost everybody loves to hate Affleck, but I’ve always had a soft spot for that talented screwup—and it was obvious what broke him and JLo up the first time was his trying to live in the bubble of her celebrity. (Well, that and him being a drunk at the time.)
I can’t imagine a more thankless task than dating Jennifer Lopez. Imagine the hoops you’d have to jump through for her to even notice that you’re there, and when she does notice she just has her lawyer send you a sternly worded letter saying you’re not allowed to look at or speak to her unless you’re on camera.
How is this news? Bullcrap.
Just leave this guy the fuck alone. Goddamn.