Before Miley Cyrus ditched the hair extensions and the glamorous life of being TV’s Hannah Montana, she was rocking pencil-thin eyebrows and flowing brunette locks across several photoshoots.
She also stared into the camera with weird, dead eyes that people are having too much fun with, years after the fact. A new meme that’s been going around is pretty simple: It’s a photo of Miley with piercing blue eyes that seem to have zero signs of life behind them. Kind of like a doll’s eyes. She’s looking straight ahead as though she’s lost any sort of semblance of humanity. And people are having a blast with this strange pose, because why not?
There’s no real explanation for why the picture is making the rounds right now, but we know it’s a relic from the singer and actress’ storied history. When the photo was taken, Cyrus was actually 15, and looking a sight different from the somewhat erratic pop star we now know her as, even post-Bangerz (her best album, don’t @ us.) But…that face. Why?
Drew Barrymore in Firestarter b like pic.twitter.com/WbFlN2cdJX
— shonda rhimes wrote crossroads (@jersing) October 24, 2018
That stare.
Bank Robber: goofiest bitch in the room getting shot first
— fem top (@gayandold) October 23, 2018
Me: pic.twitter.com/kFZUpjTnNZ
https://twitter.com/eIvisbot/status/1055138968101019649
https://twitter.com/eIvisbot/status/1055335524062248960
It’s uncanny, how terrifying this look for Miley actually is. You okay, Ms. Cyrus?
https://twitter.com/eIvisbot/status/1055138800999886848
https://twitter.com/purpIedream/status/1054482620233515010
https://twitter.com/faggrat/status/1055173515131920384
https://twitter.com/wildestthot/status/1054829038152368129
https://twitter.com/chateaumarment/status/1054791514826649600
Most people opt to focus on how unsettling Miley’s stare is here, like she’s some kind of automaton.
https://twitter.com/eIvisbot/status/1055138876153446400
https://twitter.com/eIvisbot/status/1055138929014423552
Miley’s face is even being combined with other memes, like in the case of this exemplary A Star is Born tweet.
— fem top (@gayandold) October 24, 2018
And this one.
https://twitter.com/eIvisbot/status/1055335846650368000
This one too.
— nico 🍒 (@fkanico) October 23, 2018
As creepy as the photo is, people just can’t get enough of it.
https://twitter.com/agenderjortz/status/1054964615048806400
Others are simply scared for their lives.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaNaugh/status/1055185719914831872
It’s arresting, in more ways than one. We’re just curious, in the meantime, how Miley feels about this bizarre lewk of hers from so long ago.
https://twitter.com/alfredoo666/status/1054894910489456640
Unfortunately, she’s still taking her sabbatical from social media at the moment, so it’s possible she hasn’t even seen the hilarity going on with these images. When she decides to return, however, it looks like she’ll be in for a hilarious time with all these edits.