A lot of millennials grew up thinking of Robert Pattinson as a stone-cold hottie teen dream, so his eventual growth into the weird character actor he has become is sometimes disorienting. He shouldn’t be playing Batman, he should be an even more unhinged version of Two-Face. His turn in The Lighthouse was as close to the “real him” as anyone who hasn’t done drugs in a closet with him is likely to get.
Even though we know he’s a strange dude who doesn’t exactly fit the heartthrob role anymore, it’s one thing to know and another thing to see. Pattinson’s true form seems to have manifested in a photo originally posted by Josh Safdie, according to KnowYourMeme, the writer and director of Good Time, a film in which Pattinson plays Connie, a small-time criminal. This is a behind-the-scenes photo Safdie shared in 2017 on Instagram and which he has since deleted—unfortunately, it was too late. The Robert Pattinson meme was born.
Though it’s been around for a while, the Robert Pattinson meme has recently become big again as people riff on who this guy is and what he’s doing in the kitchen. Almost everyone seems to see this version of Pattinson as someone you absolutely would never have sex with, not even if he was a vampire thirsting to marry you. And I suspect that’s who Pattinson really is: a strange man being awkward at a party. It makes me like him even more.
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my bf came over LOL he’s so crazy!! pic.twitter.com/dJRkVPJjvi
— Britney Spears killed JFK (@a24bitch) August 6, 2020
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— danielle 🕸𓍊𓋼𓍊♡☾ (@graveyardwitch_) September 17, 2020
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https://twitter.com/VeryFineHat/status/1291840349443432451
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this man just ate all my yoghurt and now won’t stop asking where the tv remote is pic.twitter.com/VvFmbW6ekO
— BERTIE GILBERT (@bertieglbrt) August 7, 2020
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https://twitter.com/_donnydrama/status/1292215827786235906
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i'm telling my kids that this was fez from euphoria pic.twitter.com/E36ZFx5RT4
— maria (@tchaIammt) November 20, 2019
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https://twitter.com/pattinsonbats/status/1248680959945379841
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This is “strawberry dress” for guys pic.twitter.com/f2PrdvKVx1
— Rob (@ghoulcabin) August 8, 2020
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This guy showed up in my house and keeps asking to check out the basement pic.twitter.com/2hp3jERpiV
— Battman 🦇 (@BatmanFiles) August 8, 2020