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Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in the face during the Oscars before winning Best Actor

What just happened?

As they do every year, the Oscars were simply rolling along. Some of the most talented people in Hollywood were winning the tiny gold man on a pedestal. Laughs were shared. Tears were shed. Everyone was having a grand old time!

Then Chris Rock came to the stage to present. And in what has to be an Oscars first, some sort of confusing chaos broke loose.

During a short monologue, the comedian turned to a ‘G.I. Jane’ joke about actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, who has spoken about her autoimmune disorder alopecia. Her husband, actor Will Smith, appeared to take exception and stepped onto the stage. Except Smith didn’t only step.

He slapped Rock across the face.

Here’s a video of the entire sequence, which the Oscars’ domestic broadcast bleeped out, leading to confusion all over the Internet.

Warning: NSFW — Language

Was it real? Did Smith really slap Rock?

In the commercial break immediately after, Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry pulled Smith aside and appeared to console him.

But the night wasn’t over.

Twitter turned Will Smith into the 2020 version of the crying Jordan meme and it’s hilarious

How unfortunate.

The Will Smith memes have only existed for just under 24 hours now but we can already tell that this is going to last for a while.

Smith appearance on Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Red Table Talk showwhere the couple talked about their split and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s relationship — or “entanglement” — with August Alsina. They had an interesting conversation about it, certainly. And points were definitely made.

However, we are here to talk about absolutely none of that.

What we are here for to discuss, folks, is how the internet took a heartfelt conversation between Will Smith and his wife and turned him into the new crying Jordan meme of 2020.

During the conversation the two were having, Pinkett-Smith began to describe her relationship with Alsina as an “entanglement.” While she explained, Will Smith made this face.

And this one.

Now, to be clear, there was no beef between these two during this conversation. They were broken up. It was fine for Jada to be in a relationship with whoever she wanted.

But this is the internet. And in this digital world we live in, jokes are much, much better than facts. And so all the jokes poured in. Twitter went crazy.

But then, even outside of their conversation, the meme just took on a life of its own. Smith’s face became the internet’s face for 2020.

Throw this one in the Twitter history books, folks. We’ll be seeing it for years to come.