Megamind Peeking
Where it came from
A screenshot from the 2010 animated film Megamind, showing Megamind peeking out from behind something with a small, hopeful expression. Became a meme in 2022.
Megamind peeks around a corner, small and expectant, waiting to see a thing. The caption describes whatever you're secretly hoping to find — a response to a message, a reply to your pitch, your name in a list. The joke is that you're not actively looking, you're just peeking, trying to look casual about how much you care.
The peek is the whole format. It captures that specific feeling of checking something forty times while pretending you don't care. Megamind's face is doing "I'm not desperate, I'm just curious" and failing at it.
Relatively recent and still in active use.
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