As her reaction went viral on social media, many people compared her side eye moment, which has now become a meme, with the monkey puppet meme from the Japanese children's TV show Ōkiku naru Ko.

Here’s the full moment of Swift reacting to the boos: You can read the origins of the ‘monkey puppet’ meme here. It’s been around for a long time. Look what you made her do, Super Bowl fans.

That attention intensified, particularly from trolls and racist detractors of the tennis star and her stance in Japan after Osaka shared the monkey puppet meme on her Twitter account. The meme uses a ...