Jawad Bendaoud was accused of lending his apartment to two jihadists after the November 2015 Paris attacks. Both men had links to ISIS and were involved in terror attacks in one of the city’s most deadly attacks. Bendaoud was sentenced on appeal to four years in prison last week.
The footage of him walking into the Paris courtroom dressed in a tracksuit with a puffed chest and a face that says he means business has become a viral meme. Know Your Meme has dubbed it the “Tough Guy Entrance”.
Twitter user Mohamedjellit posted a few seconds of a video of Bendaoud on the social site, saying, “caption this” and boy, did people caption it. The video essentially speaks to those moments when someone steps up to defend something and maybe is taking that thing a little too seriously.
One person used the video to reference the Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” remix.
https://twitter.com/Ejayarrmani/status/1114168161014878208
Other people are using it for moments that seem a little too specific.
When you're about to piss your pants but all the urinals are full with punk-ass busters. https://t.co/kPwJq4sBcw
— Sal Vulcano (@SalVulcano) April 4, 2019
the teacher walking into class the next day after we made the substitute cry https://t.co/PUaVMVasCJ
— ibra (@yungibra_) April 1, 2019
Me guarding my mom at the ATM machine https://t.co/YFR929omtk
— A (@A_rusyaidi16) April 3, 2019
https://twitter.com/stanvocaIists/status/1114163416476913669
https://twitter.com/_Z0ldyck/status/1113938906620342272
My nephew realizing one of his lunchables got eaten
— Marcia Belsky (@MarciaBelsky) April 5, 2019
pic.twitter.com/fISEZFRBER
Although the circumstances that brought Bendaoud to this moment are unfortunate, his attitude in this video clip has been all of us at some point.
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