Grant Gustin Over Grave
Where it came from
A photoshopped image of actor Grant Gustin — in a red jacket, smirking — standing over a gravestone, which spread as a gloating reaction format around 2020. The base photo is just Gustin posing; someone cut him out and dropped him next to a headstone.
Grant Gustin stands over a grave with a smug little grin, hands at his sides, completely at peace. You caption the headstone with whatever thing you're glad is dead and buried. The joke is the contempt: he's not sad at the funeral, he's posing for a photo on top of it. The smirk is everything — without it he's just a guy in a cemetery.
You use it to dance on a grave. A canceled show you hated, a take that aged badly, an ex-friend's group chat, your own bad habit that you finally killed. Anything you want to gloat over goes on the stone, and Gustin's face supplies the petty satisfaction. It hit on Twitter and Tumblr around 2020 and got a real run as the go-to "good riddance" image.
It's faded since. You still catch it when someone wants to be smug about something being over, but it's not in the rotation the way it was, and plenty of people who post it have no idea the guy is The Flash. It's not dead, it's just standing next to one.
Search interest, over time
↳ data courtesy of google trends
