# Every Day I Wake Up During the climactic fight in Marriage Story, Adam Driver's character Charlie gestures, punches a wall, and crumples sobbing while arguing with Scarlett Johansson's Nicole. By November 2020, Tumblr users had cropped Driver's panels into a two or three-panel exploitable captioned 'Every Day I Wake Up' for venting about small frustrations. ## Origin Marriage Story premiered on Netflix on November 6, 2019, as a dramatic account of Charlie and Nicole splitting their marriage[3]. The confrontation scene that supplied the Charlie panels went up on YouTube on December 6, 2019 via the Netflix Film Club channel and passed 3.6 million views within 18 months[1]. On November 8, 2020, Tumblr blog IncorrectBookQuotes posted a caption-change version using Adam Driver's portions, which received over 400 notes and 300 likes in roughly seven months[2]. That post set the template of using only Charlie's beats, cutting Johansson's lines out entirely. - **Platform:** YouTube (source clip) / Tumblr (viral spread) - **Creator:** IncorrectBookQuotes (earliest known caption-change post) - **Date:** 2020 ## Overview Posts in the Every Day I Wake Up format follow Driver's three-beat sequence as a reaction progression. A two-panel version shows only the hand gesture and the sobbing collapse, while the three-panel version includes the wall hit between them for extra escalation[3]. The caption above each panel ramps up, often a mild complaint, a louder one, then the breakdown. A longer version using both Johansson's and Driver's lines, called Nicole and Charlie's Argument, exists as a separate format on its own[3]. The Charlie-only crop sticks to subjects where the escalation feels earned by Driver's acting but absurd given the stakes, from confusion about home maintenance[4] to petty online grievances[5]. ## How to Use Typically, posters pick a mundane grievance and stack it against Driver's escalation. A common convention is to open with a flat statement of the annoyance on the first panel (the gesture), raise the stakes with a second line on the wall-punch panel, then land the final caption on the sobbing panel. Two-panel versions skip the middle beat and go straight from complaint to meltdown. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Every Day I Wake Up? It is a two or three-panel exploitable image macro built from Adam Driver's reactions during the argument scene in Marriage Story[3]. ### Where did Every Day I Wake Up come from? The underlying clip is from Marriage Story (2019); the Charlie-only caption format was popularized by a Tumblr post from IncorrectBookQuotes on November 8, 2020[2]. ### What does Every Day I Wake Up mean? Posters use it to inflate a small frustration, matching an everyday annoyance to Driver's gesturing, wall-punching, and sobbing beats[4]. ### How do you use Every Day I Wake Up? Caption each panel with an escalating complaint, often starting with a flat statement and ending on the sobbing panel, as @shahirahnizam did when venting about a vaccine appointment[5]. ### Is Every Day I Wake Up still popular? Documented activity peaked across Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter in 2020 and 2021, so it reads today as a semi-active format tied to the Marriage Story clip[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFdroN7d0w]() 2. [https://theincorrectbookquotes.tumblr.com/post/634367555509878784/the-struggle-is-real-my-guy]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/every-day-i-wake-up]() 4. [https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/nglyqb/every_day_i_wake_up_and_i_still_cant_even/]() 5. [https://twitter.com/shahirahnizam/status/1410634818975506434]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/every-day-i-wake-up Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library