# Dean Norris Dean Norris is the American actor best known as Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad, whose online meme presence took shape through a viral May 2018 tweet reading just 'Sex gifs' and a two-panel reaction image format that took off in April 2021 using contrasting smiling and displeased photos of him. ## Overview Dean Norris is an American actor best known for playing DEA agent Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad and Big Jim Rennie on Under the Dome[7]. His online meme footprint has two main pieces: a May 2018 tweet reading only the words 'Sex gifs,' and a two-panel reaction image format built from contrasting photos of him, one grinning and one visibly annoyed[7]. The reaction format works like most stacked reaction memes, with the smiling Norris photo on top and the sour-faced Norris photo underneath. He is active on Twitter as @Deanjnorris and picked up a large Breaking Bad fan following there, which helped push his posts into meme circulation[2]. ## How It Spread The 'Sex gifs' tweet blew up almost immediately, pulling in over 12,000 retweets and 34,000 likes and staying up rather than being quietly deleted[1]. Most readers assumed Norris had meant to type the phrase into a search engine and hit the tweet box instead, drawing comparisons to former UK politician Ed Balls's 2011 name-tweet[5]. Twitter users replied with actual sex GIFs, turning the thread itself into part of the joke[1]. Coverage picked up quickly from Maxim, AV Club, and Daily Dot, which framed it as a 55-year-old actor getting confused by Twitter's interface[1][5][6]. On Reddit, Norris was already a recurring subject for Breaking Bad fans, with a /r/firstworldanarchists post about him passing 21,000 points[3] and a /r/funny post of him cosplaying at Comic-Con reaching 3,600 points[4]. In early April 2021, the two-panel reaction format using paired smiling and displeased photos of Norris started circulating, typically used to express approval of one thing next to displeasure at another[7]. That format kept him in reaction-image rotation alongside his older Breaking Bad screencaps. ## How to Use For the reaction image, users typically stack the smiling Norris photo above a positive statement and the displeased Norris photo above the thing they dislike, so the punchline lands in the second panel. A common convention is to keep both panels captioned with short text in the same style, following the standard two-panel reaction template[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Dean Norris? Dean Norris is an American actor from Breaking Bad who became a meme figure through his May 2018 'Sex gifs' tweet and a 2021 two-panel reaction image format built from his smiling and displeased photos[7]. ### Where did Dean Norris come from? Norris played Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad starting in 2008 and built a fanbase around the show, then went viral on Twitter with the 'Sex gifs' tweet posted May 22, 2018[1][7]. ### What does Dean Norris mean? As a two-panel meme, the contrast between his smiling and annoyed photos is used to show approval of one thing and disapproval of another[7]. As a viral moment, 'Sex gifs' refers to his 2018 tweet that most readers took as a search-bar mistake[1]. ### How do you use Dean Norris? People typically place the grinning Norris photo above something they like and the displeased Norris photo above something they dislike, keeping both captions short in the standard two-panel reaction style[7]. ### Is Dean Norris still popular? He kept a strong Breaking Bad fan following on Twitter and Reddit through the 2018 tweet moment, and the reaction image format spread widely after April 2021[2][7]. ## References 1. [https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/breaking-bad-dean-norris-sex-gifs-twitter-2018-5]() 2. [https://twitter.com/Deanjnorris]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldanarchists/]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/]() 5. [https://www.avclub.com/dean-norris-is-looking-for-some-sex-gifs-if-you-have-1826173286]() 6. [https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/dean-norris-sex-gifs-tweet/]() 7. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/dean-norris]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/dean-norris Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library