Smirking Kevin James Is Haunting Everyones Timelines

Has a smirking Kevin James taken over your group chats and social-media feeds? You may be entitled to financial compensation. Okay, not really, but seemingly overnight, a stock image of James as Doug Heffernan from King of Queens has been the latest meme to take over Twitter and Instagram, with Facebook users probably seeing it

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Has a smirking Kevin James taken over your group chats and social-media feeds? You may be entitled to financial compensation. Okay, not really, but seemingly overnight, a stock image of James as Doug Heffernan from King of Queens has been the latest meme to take over Twitter and Instagram, with Facebook users probably seeing it in about a year or so. It started with a randomly innocuous tweet from a Twitter user, ChampagneAnyone, who captioned the stock image from 1998 with, “me after 1 double rum and diet,” coincidentally one day after the 25th anniversary of King of Queens. It has taken over every corner of the internet, including sneaking into the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce dating-rumor fiasco, as well as being an official statement by Senator John Fetterman on the new Senate dress code.

me after 1 double rum and diet pic.twitter.com/zfJFNCuCbT

— andy from 5 to 7 (@ChampagneAnyone) September 22, 2023

This is a real Fetterman statement. pic.twitter.com/0ptHeZ3xPa

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 27, 2023

King James eventually grew an empire online as the memes expanded to the rest of the King of Queens stock-photo cinematic universe.

they just had kevin james doing anything for those king of queens press shoots pic.twitter.com/8YjnDHvjkN

— luca (@LucaGuadagnegro) September 25, 2023

she was the baddest, he was the realest pic.twitter.com/7YPzq9R57n

— Al Shipley (@alshipley) September 25, 2023

Who decided Kevin James was gone be the center of memes this month?? 😭😭 https://t.co/VKDNJPhJ7z

— 𝔟𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩🧈 (@JrayBerry) September 25, 2023

Queen of King of Queens Leah Remini has fully accepted all of the Kevin James stock-image memes as a part of the King of Queens anniversary celebrations. And James has responded to all the memes by devising a new tour poster.

Gearing up for my new Stand Up Tour… So glad I found this headshot… pic.twitter.com/4sL6346fhf

— Kevin James (@KevinJames) September 27, 2023 View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Leah Remini (@leahremini)

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Smirking Kevin James Is Haunting Everyone’s Timelines

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