Will Smith’s 2025 single “Pretty Girls” was supposed to mark the star’s pivot from Hollywood back to music. While the music video did rack up millions of views on YouTube, it also earned a reputation online as cringeworthy and out-of-touch, with some saying that Unc should stay retired.
Despite the divisive response, a clip from “Pretty Girls” now lives on as a meme on TikTok. Here’s what GIFTok did with the clip that shows Will Smith Looking Around frantically while dressed in a multicolored sweater and red glasses.
What’s The ‘Will Smith Looking Around GIF’?
The meme showing Will Smith looking around comes straight from the music video of his song, “Pretty Girls,” released June 13th, 2025, as part of Smith’s album Based On a True Story. After he sings, “Ain’t too many women ain’t pretty to me, as far as I can see,” Smith darts his eyes and head around the room to an electronic beat.
The clip was repurposed on GIFTok in August 2025, a community where people play looping, GIF-like memes often paired with underground rap snippets. One of the earliest memes was posted by TikToker @cianapatron on August 13th, 2025, who put the Smith clip over unreleased SZA vocals, “Me and Ashley, late night on the golf course.”
@cianapatron This will reach 1Mil views bc im 🐐ed
♬ original sound – 🌊🌊
The caption on the video read, “When I get my first pole but there’s so many potential first kills around me that i just cant decide which mf is gonna go first,” and the post gathered over 1.2 million plays and 270,000 likes in four days.
What Are Some More Examples of ‘Will Smith Looking Around’ Memes?
A day later, on August 14th, TikToker @startoverrr posted the meme with a caption that read, “It’s the first day of freshman year and there’s so many senior buns you don’t know which to analyze first.” The post gathered over 1 million plays and 200,000 likes, and led to the topic of “analyzing buns” becoming a recurring gag in the trend.
@startoverrr #freshman ♬ original sound – 🌊🌊
On August 16th, TikToker @und3rhaven posted the GIF to joke about getting caught skipping schoolwork, writing, “When the teacher asks me to pull out my hw and I start looking around in my bookbag for it knowing darn well I didn’t do it.” That version raked in 1.4 million plays and 400,000 likes in a single day.
@und3rhaven #fypシ #fyp #funny#giftok#willsmith ♬ original sound – 🌊🌊
The same day, TikToker @inyuashua added a caption about getting humbled while shadowboxing with his homeboy, pulling in over 500,000 plays and 100,000 likes in a day.
@inyuashua #willsmith #fyp #giftok ♬ original sound – 🌊🌊
For the full history of the Will Smith Looking Around GIF, be sure to check out Know Your Meme’s encyclopedia entry for more information.