Yesterday, Dustin Hoffman took over the Internet. He was on every news outlet from Business Insider, The Huffington Post and Upworthy to The Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter and NBC.
It's surprising because Hoffman isn't exactly A-list Hollywood anymore. He also hasn't done anything new or noteworthy.
The reason he went viral yesterday is because of a 30-year-old movie he starred in, "Tootsie," and a post-interview he did with the American Film Institute (AFI). AFI posted the clip on YouTube on December 17, 2012.
So why did the clip finally explode only yesterday?
We traced it back. It all starts one month ago, on a tiny Tumblr blog ...
One month ago, a Tumblr called "ABoysBestFriendIsHisMother" did what it often does: It broke out a movie into a series of gifs overwritten with text. He's done it for "Batman" and even "13 Going on 30." But last month, he decided to do it with Dustin Hoffman and his old 1982 movie, "Tootsie."
The video he took the GIFs from was posted by AFI on December 17, 2012. Yesterday afternoon it had 670,000 views. This morning it has nearly 3 million.
If you haven't watched the clip, you can watch it below. Basically, Dustin Hoffman says he was mean to unattractive women prior to his role in Tootsie. When he realized he couldn't be transformed into an attractive woman, he cried and realized he had been superficial and cruel to others.
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