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Angelina Jolie's Leg
About
Angelina Jolie's Leg refers to a photograph of Angelina Jolie at the 84th Academy Awards' red carpet ceremony which became the subject of a photoshop meme and other forms of online parodies in February 2012.
Origin
On February 26th, 2012, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie arrived at the 84th Academy Awards' red carpet ceremony in a strapless black Versace dress with a split revealing her leg. Being one of the most well-known celebrity runway events of the year, Jolie's red carpet entrance became a much talked-about topic during and after the awards ceremony.
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Spread
On Twitter
Soon after her arrival at the red carpet, a Twitter feed dubbed "Angie's Right Leg"[1] was launched, accruing more than 12,000 followers within hours. The first tweet was published at 10:36 p.m. (Eastern Time).
On Tumblr
Meanwhile on Tumblr, people began uploading various photoshopped images of Jolie's leg-revealing pose, some featuring more than one pair of legs and perfectly symmetrical stance. The symmetrically photoshopped version was posted by Tumblr blogger OldGhost[10] and received over 18,000 notes within the first 24 hours. The image jokes were soon picked up by a number of celebrity blogs like Gawker[3], ROFLrazzi[4] and Entertainment Weekly[5] among others.
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Photo Fad: Joliening
Angelina Jolie's memorable pose was imitated by on-stage presenters during the awards ceremony as well, most notably The Descendants co-writer Jim Rash who imitated her stance during his acceptance speech for the Best Adapted Screenplay award. Huffington Posts' Style[6] bloggers also participated in the photo fad and shared the pictures via Tumblr.
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On the following day, Tumblr and Twitter went abuzz with people taking photographs of themselves in similar poses, which were uploaded under the hashtags #angellegging and #Joliening. Soon, a single topic blog called "Angelina Jolie'ing"[2] was launched on Tumblr to curate the examples.
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Legbombing
Jolie's leg soon became autonomous as an exploitable image and plugged into various images that were dubbed "legbombing" (a portmanteau of "leg" and "photobombing") by Buzzfeed.[7]
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Various Examples
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Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @AngiesRightLeg
[2] Tumblr – Angelina Jolieing
[3] Gawker – Angelina’s Right Leg Poised to Supplant All Creative Arts Forever
[4] ROFLrazzi – Why Hasn’t Anyone Noticed Angelina Jolie’s Leg Yet?
[5] Entertainment Weekly – You knew it was coming: Angelina Jolie's leg launches Twitter feed, online memes aplenty
[6] Huffington Post (via Wayback Machine) – #Angelegging in the newsroom
[7] Buzzfeed – Legbombing
[8] International Business Times – Angelina Jolie Leg: An Internet Meme Sensation After Oscars 2012 [PHOTOS]
[9] New York Times (via Wayback Machine) – Joliening at the Oscars
[10] Tumblr – Crooked Legs
Top Comments
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Feb 27, 2012 at 08:28PM EST
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