# Us (2019 Film) Us is Jordan Peele's 2019 horror film about a family attacked by their doppelgangers, which sparked a wave of Twitter edits where users imagined meeting their own creepy duplicates. The clone premise fueled reaction jokes, screenshot edits and group-chat riffs after the March 2019 premiere. ## Origin Jordan Peele first teased the film by tweeting the official poster on May 8th, 2018, a post that pulled over 84,000 retweets and 312,000 likes within the following year[2]. Universal Pictures then released the first trailer on YouTube on December 25th, 2018, which drew more than 15 million views in under four months[1]. The meme format itself picked up around the film's SXSW premiere and wide release in March 2019. Critic Clayton Davis's post-premiere tweet calling Peele a "modern day Hitchcock" circulated widely alongside the fan edits, pulling more than 3,500 retweets and 19,000 likes in three days[3]. - **Platform:** YouTube (trailer) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview Us is a 2019 American horror film directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker as two families confronted by their murderous doubles, known in the film as the Tethered[1]. The scissor-wielding red jumpsuit look of the clones became the visual shorthand that drove most of the online jokes[5]. On Twitter, the format took the shape of users posting side-by-side photos or edits captioned around the idea of meeting their own "Us" clone, often with a punchline about which version was the eviler one[3]. The jokes mixed stills from the film with selfies, celebrity photos and in-group references, with the queer Twitter angle "the gays meeting their Us clones" running widely in the week after the premiere[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Us (2019 Film)? Us is a 2019 American horror film directed by Jordan Peele about a family attacked by their doppelgangers, which fueled a wave of Twitter clone-meeting jokes[1]. ### Where did Us (2019 Film) come from? Peele tweeted the first poster on May 8th, 2018, and Universal released the trailer on YouTube on December 25th, 2018, before the film's March 2019 premiere[2][1]. ### What does Us (2019 Film) mean? Online, the Us reference points to the film's Tethered doppelgangers and the format of imagining meeting your own evil red-jumpsuit twin[4]. ### How do you use Us (2019 Film)? A common convention is pairing two photos of the same person with a caption about meeting their "Us" clone, often framed around a specific group or fandom[3]. ### Is Us (2019 Film) still popular? The clone-meeting edits were most active around the March 2019 release window, when Us set a $70 million opening for an original horror film[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA]() 2. [https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/994004752466767872]() 3. [https://x.com/i/status/1109986614892285952]() 4. [https://x.com/i/status/1110195929779310592]() 5. [https://variety.com/2019/film/box-office/us-movie-box-office-opening-weekend-jordan-peele-1203170926/]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/us-2019-film]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/us-2019-film Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library