Many years ago I remember seeing a similar meme to this starring Mischa Barton, using the same photo of her looking blank in various emotional situations, but that was done with clear ill-will to paint her as a limited performer. Buster Keaton, of course, was a man of stone and not wood, “the great Stone Face”, but this meme really is more of a tribute to him. The really funny thing, with hindsight, about his very early stuff with Roscoe Arbuckle is that he actually does emote in them, sometimes even broadly:
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