Maddy Banging On Door — Maddy Perez in a black cutout dress banging on a white door in a dim teal-lit hallway in Euphoria

Maddy Banging On Door

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Published October 15, 2026

Maddy Banging On Door, also known as Maddy Knocking On Door, started as a screencap from the January 2022 premiere of HBO's Euphoria Season 2, showing Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie) pounding on a bathroom door that Cassie Howard and Nate Jacobs were hiding behind. Twitter user @htsvzn posted the first known edit on January 10, 2022, comparing her stance to the attic scene in Hereditary. By late January 2022, the rotated screencap turned into an exploitable template with captions calling her a planks exercise, a square root symbol and a biblically accurate angel.

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Overview

Posters took the rotated screencap of Maddy, fists raised against the door, and dropped her into unrelated contexts where the body position carried the joke more than the Euphoria scene itself. The stance read as planks, a square root sign, a geometric shape or a horror pose depending on what caption sat above her24. Some edits kept the original frame intact with a punchline on top, while photoshops moved Maddy into other templates like Be Not Afraid and Rolls Worst Joint Ever69.

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Edits got more abstract through late January 2022, with self-referential captions and absurd object edits taking over from the straightforward reaction-image format. Video versions of the clip stayed in rotation on TikTok with overlay text about chasing down whoever caused a specific grievance8. The template worked because Maddy's rigid, forward-facing silhouette flattened into almost any shape editors wanted to make it into.

Origin & Background

Platform
HBO Euphoria (source) / Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
@htsvzn
Date
2022

Season 2 of HBO's Euphoria premiered on January 9, 2022, with a scene where Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie) bangs on a bathroom door that Cassie Howard and Nate Jacobs are hiding behind3. Twitter user @htsvzn posted the first known meme using the clip on January 10, 2022, comparing Maddy to the mother in Hereditary trying to break into the attic1. That tweet picked up around 1,900 likes over the following eighteen days3.

The scene itself came from the show's writers and HBO production; @htsvzn created the earliest known meme edit using the footage, kicking off the format others expanded on.

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How It Spread

On January 12, 2022, Twitter user @umbillicalbaddi posted an experimental edit of the door scene captioned 'euphoria door scene but make it experimental,' earning roughly 1,400 likes over 17 days7. The format moved to TikTok a day later when @alfierichie overlaid text joking about hunting down whoever started a Lana Del Rey Euphoria song rumor, earning over 30,700 plays and 2,700 likes8.

Screencap edits exploded on January 26, 2022, when @inorganic_gooch rotated the image sideways and captioned it 'me doing planks,' earning roughly 302,000 likes in two days2. Later the same day, @chanelnumbertwo captioned the same frame 'the square root of 16' and got about 126,400 likes4. Other posters got creative with template crossovers: @romansgerri referenced Interstellar for about 100,600 likes5, @willfulchaos photoshopped Maddy into the Be Not Afraid template as a biblically accurate angel for around 43,700 likes6, and @cun__ty turned her into a marijuana joint referencing Rolls Worst Joint Ever for over 25,700 likes9.

On January 27, 2022, Instagram account @ninasayersapologist shared a carousel of Twitter edits that collected roughly 1,700 likes in under a day3. The trend also reached the /r/Euphoria subreddit, where one post using the image to spell out a name picked up over 800 likes in the same window10.

Timeline

2022-01-09

HBO's Euphoria Season 2 premiere aired, including the scene of Maddy Perez banging on the bathroom door hiding Cassie and Nate.

2022-01-10

Twitter user @htsvzn posted the first known meme edit, comparing Maddy to the attic scene in Hereditary.

2022-01-12

@umbillicalbaddi posted an experimental edit captioned 'euphoria door scene but make it experimental.'

2022-01-13

TikToker @alfierichie posted a video overlaying text about the Lana Del Rey Euphoria song rumor, earning over 30,700 plays.

2022-01-26

@inorganic_gooch rotated the screencap and captioned it 'me doing planks,' earning roughly 302,000 likes and starting a Twitter chain of exploitable edits.

2022-01-26

@chanelnumbertwo captioned the frame 'the square root of 16' for about 126,400 likes; @romansgerri and @willfulchaos ran crossover edits with Interstellar and Be Not Afraid.

2022-01-27

Instagram carousel from @ninasayersapologist and a /r/Euphoria post spread the format past Twitter.

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