While the reaction is pretty hilarious in its context, it has endless uses. It has recently become more popular after Twitter user eskbli tweeted the GIF on Feb. 5, racking up over 49,000 retweets.

That’s why people are increasingly turning to GIFs, the versatile image format that creates endless loops of short ... recently tweeting his reaction to securing the 2013 MLB All-Star game ...

In an age where your virtual background says more about you than actually being in the call, static backgrounds in Zoom are just ... to create immediate-reaction GIFs to news events, press ...

More than LOLCat, more than Doge, the reaction GIF has become the lingua franca of the internet. It's a perfect, economical expression—and next month, it gets its own exhibit at the Museum of ...