Cillian Murphy's hollow, staring face from Oppenheimer — the hat, the cigarette, the eyes of a man who has seen the test — as the reaction image for any realisation too big for a caption. The record's entry for Barbenheimer's other half, the half that stared.
The record notes that Barbie gave the internet a template and Oppenheimer gave it a face, and that both are still in use, and that the face is used for worse things.
I remember when Oppenheimer Reaction was still a niche thing — July 2023 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
Live specimen. A brand account used Oppenheimer Reaction in a reply to a customer complaint. The complaint was about a delivery. The customer did not reply.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
