# TennantFace TennantFace is a Photoshop exploitable that pastes Scottish actor David Tennant's gaping, wide-eyed expression, snapped on the Doctor Who set, onto other images for comedic effect. Tumblr user invisibleduck kicked off the format in November 2010, and it grew into a dedicated single-topic blog that racked up hundreds of fan-submitted edits. ## Origin The source photo of David Tennant surfaced online around September 2009, first showing up in a LiveJournal picspam by user _sofiej_ dedicated to Tennant and the Tenth Doctor[1]. The still then bounced around fan sites including Uniblog[2], SodaHead[4], and the French Doctor Who fan site Unification (translated from French)[5]. On November 30, 2010, Tumblr user invisibleduck posted the first Photoshopped version and reposted it to a new single-topic blog called TennantFace[3]. Invisibleduck submitted a definition to Urban Dictionary the following summer, on June 19, 2011[6]. - **Platform:** Tumblr - **Creator:** invisibleduck (Tumblr) - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview Edits typically drop Tennant's shocked, mouth-agape face onto celebrities, animals, cartoon characters, or whatever the editor thinks would look funnier with the Tenth Doctor's rubbery expression stapled on it[3]. The source still comes from behind-the-scenes footage of Doctor Who, and while the photographer was never confirmed, the image was already circulating in fan communities by September 2009[1]. Quality ranges from quick face-swap jobs to more careful blends where the eyebrows and jawline get color-matched to the recipient image. The TennantFace format lived on Tumblr as a reblog gag rather than crossing over to mainstream meme circulation. ## How to Use Making a TennantFace typically means grabbing the source still, isolating Tennant's face with its distinctive open-mouthed stare, and dropping it onto a target image with enough color-matching to blend. Common targets include album covers, movie stills, animals, and other memes, with posts commonly going up under the Tumblr hashtag #tennantface[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is TennantFace? TennantFace is an exploitable Photoshop meme that pastes David Tennant's wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression, taken on the Doctor Who set, onto other images for comedic effect[6]. ### Where did TennantFace come from? The source photo circulated in Doctor Who fan communities as early as September 2009[1], and Tumblr user invisibleduck posted the first Photoshopped edit on November 30, 2010, launching the TennantFace blog[3]. ### What does TennantFace mean? The term refers to the specific gaping, wide-eyed still of Scottish actor David Tennant used as a face-swap template in Photoshop edits[6]. ### How do you use TennantFace? Editors cut out Tennant's face from the source still and composite it onto a target image, then typically share the result on Tumblr under the #tennantface tag[7]. ### Is TennantFace still popular? TennantFace was most active on Tumblr in the early 2010s, when the TennantFace blog cleared 800 posts in its first three years[3]; it's a classic Tumblr-era meme rather than a currently trending format. ## References 1. [http://users.livejournal.com/_sofiej_/308580.html]() 2. [http://theuniblog.evilspacerobot.com/?p=5578]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tennantface]() 4. [https://www.sodahead.com/entertainment/will-you-miss-david-tennant/question-784155/]() 5. [http://www.unificationfrance.com/spip.php?article11828]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TennantFace&defid=5897992]() 7. [https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tennantface]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/tennantface Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library