# Angry Jigglypuff Angry Jigglypuff is a reaction image pulled from the first Detective Pikachu trailer in November 2018, showing a photorealistic Jigglypuff puffing out its cheeks in fury after its lullaby knocks out a bar crowd. Twitter users spent the week after the trailer dropped turning the pout into a mood image and mashing it up with A Star Is Born. ## Overview Angry Jigglypuff is a reaction image lifted from the first trailer for the live-action Detective Pikachu film, in which a furry, photorealistic 3D Jigglypuff scowls at a bar crowd that has fallen asleep during its song[1]. The pout is a direct callback to the same grumpy face Jigglypuff pulls in the Pokémon anime whenever its lullaby knocks its audience out cold[3]. The joke does most of its work through contrast. The character's cutesy anime silhouette gets rendered with visible fur, glassy eyes, and a very human sulk, which made the freeze-frame instantly screencap-friendly. Twitter users started sharing the still within hours of the trailer going live, treating it as a mood image for being ignored, bombing at karaoke, or simply having a bad shift[1]. ## How It Spread The angry freeze-frame flooded Twitter almost immediately. User @isirikul called the expression a "goddamn mood" in a tweet that pulled more than 1,600 retweets and 5,000 likes, while @EscoBlades joked that Jigglypuff looked like someone had just asked it to sing Toto's "Africa"[3]. @SaraSorrentino compared the character to a washed-up lounge singer past its prime, racking up over 3,700 retweets and 11,000 likes[3]. The Daily Dot rounded up the earliest wave of reactions the same week. A parallel joke thread popped up comparing Jigglypuff to Ally Maine, Lady Gaga's character in A Star Is Born, which had opened in theaters about a month earlier. Users photoshopped Jigglypuff into scenes from the film, with @WhitneyM02 posting a dialogue mashup that pulled more than 3,200 retweets and 10,000 likes and @joeynolfi's version passing 3,400 retweets[1]. Mashable covered the crossover a day after the trailer dropped, writing that Jigglypuff "just fits so well" into the movie's musical drama scenes[1]. The A Star Is Born parodies were also picked up by Guacamoley[4]. ## How to Use The meme is typically deployed as a reaction image. Users often post the still on its own to signal quiet, seething irritation, or drop it in reply to being ghosted, ignored mid-story, or shown up at karaoke. A common convention is to caption the image with something the poster wishes they could say out loud, or to photoshop the scowling Jigglypuff into scenes from other movies and music videos in the style of the original A Star Is Born mashups[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Angry Jigglypuff? It is a reaction image of the 3D Jigglypuff from the first Detective Pikachu trailer pouting after its song puts a bar crowd to sleep[1]. ### Where did Angry Jigglypuff come from? It was clipped from the first Detective Pikachu trailer, which Warner Bros. released on YouTube on November 12, 2018[2]. ### What does Angry Jigglypuff mean? The image is used as a mood shot for quiet frustration, being ignored, or bombing in front of a crowd, mirroring the same face Jigglypuff makes in the Pokémon anime when its audience falls asleep[3]. ### How do you use Angry Jigglypuff? People typically post the still as a reaction on its own, or photoshop the scowling Jigglypuff into scenes from other films, most famously A Star Is Born[1]. ### Is Angry Jigglypuff still popular? The meme peaked in the week after the November 2018 trailer, when outlets like Mashable and Guacamoley covered the A Star Is Born mashups; it hasn't had a documented resurgence since[1][4]. ## References 1. [https://mashable.com/article/a-star-is-born-detective-pikachu-meme-crossover/]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roy4o4tqQM]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/angry-jigglypuff]() 4. [https://guacamoley.com/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/angry-jigglypuff Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library