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Anne Hathaway Just Revealed That She Was Having A Panic Attack In One Of Her Most Memed Moments—And Fans Are Floored
The End of Oak Street costars decided to talk about some of these viral moments in more detail, so Hathaway focused on two of her favorites.
The first involved a delicious sweet treat. Hathaway explained:
"So, there was this one where I was walking down the street. I was early to go to the gym, and did I get on a piece of cardio equipment? No, I didn't."
"There was a bakery around the corner, and I bought a cupcake. They gave me a bag, and I thought, 'Okay, that'll be my reward after I work out.'"
"Mind you, I'm seven months pregnant at the time."
"But then I'm walking down the street, and I'm like, 'I'm just gonna eat the cupcake now, and then I'll burn it off!'"
"I start eating the cupcake, only to realize I'm having my photograph taken by a pap."
At that realization, she made a disappointed kind of sneering face. The series of photos were later used to make a "comic" of sorts called, "Me realizing I ate all the cupcakes," and the photos had been arranged in an order to look like Hathaway was reaching into the bag for another cupcake, only to realize the bag was empty.
You can see the meme here:
The story was shared on the "Pop Culture Chat" subReddit, where Redditors were glad that Hathaway was not hurt by the meme.
"I know the cupcake one, because I feel the cupcake one in my soul. There is no worse feeling, LOL." -BachS**tCrazy
"I remember laughing so hard at her facial expression and using it for a long time with friends to describe our days lol the perfect expression for the last decade." -DanielKeeneGA15
"It's the worst feeling when you think you have 1 more and you look and there's nothing left." -cheesegoat
"The cupcake one is one of my faves. So relatable!" -My2cents_0
The second meme actually went to a darker place, because Hathaway had been having a panic attack at the time.
Hathaway had been set to guest appear on RuPaul's Drag Race in 2021 in one of the final episodes of the season to give the contestants a few words of advice before moving into their next challenge.
But she was mid-panic attack, so when she attempted to smile when the camera cut to her, it didn't look genuine.
Hathaway recalled:
"It was during the pandemic. I was doing this Zoom, and I had a panic attack."
"I just flushed from here to here [collarbone to chin]. I started sweating, and my hair got really matted to my head, and I just smiled."
"And somebody made me, like, the forever face of HR (Human Resources), because my smile went nowhere near my eyes!"
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Redditors from the "Pop Culture Chat" subReddit were shocked, never having known the lore behind the meme.
"D**n, didn't know she was having a panic attack in that picture. That's pretty intense."
"Also, going to the gym at seven months pregnant is impressive." -anonymous310506
"Like she stated, it's a smile that is not connected to her eyes. People visibly emote with their eyes when they smile; that pic looks off bc her eyes aren't emoting accordingly."
"So it instantly feels 'wrong,' as in a soulless or fake smile. Which she admits was the case; she was actually panicking, and the smile was just a front." -andre5913
"It's so accurate to the exact look and energy of my company's HR person; it's frightening." -Fragrant-Vehicle-479
"One of the most evil people from my corporate years was actually a woman in HR who constantly walked around with this face. She was very unhinged, and poor Anne Hathaway does not deserve to be the face of that meme, lol." -shedrinkscoffee
Some appreciated Hathaway's sense of humor and being able to recognize how the memes came to be.
"I’m glad she can find the meme funny, which, I’m sorry, it is, even though at the time she was going through a panic attack." -aliskyart
"Panic attacks are funny in that, as long as you come out of it ok and don't hurt yourself or anyone else, oftentimes the trigger and following event can seem funny in hindsight." -m4teri4lgirl
"The HR meme is hilarious. I’m glad she has a good sense of humor about it, LOL." -fanficmilf6969
"I can't imagine having a meme of me eating cupcakes seven months pregnant. No matter how thick-skinned, on some level, this has got to hurt a bit. I'd love to be rich, but fame, no way!" -Lushkush69
"I feel like this speaks to how elegantly she can basically remind us that you never know what people are going through. I don't know if I could ever fully be okay with my panic attack memorialized into a meme given that they are so brutal, even if it was several years ago!" -apinkgummybear
These memes might be mortifying for some people, but Hathaway handled them brilliantly, and her love for them makes them that much funnier!
Woman Who Lives In High-Rise Sparks Debate After Forcing Hispanic Window Cleaner To Get Off Her Balcony in Viral Video
She stepped out onto her balcony and said:
"I'm going to politely ask you to leave my porch. Leave my f**king porch right now, please."
The man appeared confused and gestured to the windows as she yelled:
"No! Leave right f**king now."
She continued to berate him as he gathered his things, put her balcony chairs back in their place, and maintained a respectful distance from her.
It's unclear who originally posted the video, but Instagrammer @a_daywillcome shared it, including screenshots of negative responses to the video, criticizing the woman for how she treated someone who was there to do a job.
You can watch the video here (warning: language):
Some questioned what was "polite" about the woman's demands.
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Others assumed that the woman was racist.
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Regardless of the woman's beliefs, some felt terrible for the employee, who was simply doing his job.
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Maybe the woman was nervous about having a man step onto her balcony while she was home alone, but immediately jumping to expletives without even giving him a chance to react and course-correct was uncalled for.
More than likely, the community she lives in has an agreement for window cleaning, and it's possible that the window cleaning can even include balcony windows that renters can reach themselves. She might have been uncomfortable, but the man was simply doing his job.
OpenAI CEO Ripped After Suggesting Tip For Using ChatGPT To Help Parent Your Kids—And It's So Bleak
Claiming he was told about a great use for his product, Altman posted on X:
"cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:"
"connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests."
"every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc."
The top reply was from Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch, who suggested instead of playing a podcast created by artificial intelligence:
"What if you just talked to your children"
The ratio, a comparison of likes and reposts between the two posts, wasn't even close. While Altman's original suggestion garnered 12,000 likes and 4,300 reposts as of this writing, Hirsch's post got 226,000 likes and 19,000 reposts.
Others also pushed back on Altman's suggestion.
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Altman has been trying to push AI on parents for a while. While tech companies love their products, the public hasn't jumped on board.
In an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Altman declared:
"I do [use ChatGPT for parenting]. I mean, I feel kind of bad about it because we have this, like, genius level at everything, intelligence, sitting there, like, waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity..."
"So I feel like I'm not asking a good-enough question, but it is—I don't—I cannot imagine having gone through, like, figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
After reacting to Fallon's comment that parents got along fine without environmentally destructive AI, Altman added:
"But I have relied on it so much.... I mean, [ChatGPT is] obviously, like, the most important thing to happen in my life, so it's top of mind and I use it all the time..."
"And, by the way, it's personalized. Like, ChatGPT gets to know you."
And that is part of the problem a lot of people have with feeding their children's personal information into a massive data center owned by a loosely regulated private company, to use at their discretion, instead of a solid selling point.