Doctor Mocked For Attempting To Emphasize The Seriousness Of 'The Slap' By Inviting Readers To Imagine If It Happened To Betty White

March 28th, 2022 - 4:17 PM EDT by Adam Downer

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Will smith slapping chris rock meme but he's slapping betty white instead.

Remember earlier today when we covered how Judd Apatow worried Will Smith could have killed Chris Rock and said, "Apatow's tweet was later deleted, but it will live on in public memory, at least until another incendiary tweeter replaces Apatow as the site's main character?" Well, that hour has come.

Now being similarly dubbed one of the "worst takes of the day," it appears that Dr. Emily Porter is the latest Will Smith slap commentator to receive the ire of Twitter after she tweeted that if Smith had gotten onto the stage and slapped Betty White, she could have fallen backward, cracked her head and died from a brain bleed.

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The slap has truly set off a day of brain-blasting hot takes, but Dr. Porter's seems to have quickly ascended to the top of Twitter. In an effort to underline the seriousness of Smith's slap, she notes that if Smith had slapped Betty White, who recently died at the age of 99, or Bob Saget, who recently died after hitting his head, both people could have died had they fallen and hit their head.

This is technically correct. A blow to the head is a matter that should be taken seriously. However, Porter's hypothetical seemed a little farfetched to many, as it seems unlikely that Will Smith would have slapped Betty White no matter what joke came out of her mouth β€” considering she was a 99-year old woman and Chris Rock is 57, four years Smith's senior.

Porter's take was emblematic of the moral panic spreading through the Twitter intelligentsia in the wake of the slap. While many found the situation bananas but altogether harmless (Rock himself even declined to press charges), others have been attempting to tie seemingly all the failures of modern society to the incident, with some also drawing wild comparisons between the slap and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In response, some tweeters have been memeing about the hypothetical slaps laid out by gravely serious posters among us, and Porter's hypothetical involving Betty White has largely taken the cake.


Obviously, we'll never know how Porter's hypothetical could have played out, but since we're theorizing, we choose to believe White would have taken it like a champ.



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