This green screen clip features the famous actor Al Pacino tearing and putting a piece of paper into his mouth with an intense, dramatic gaze before chewing and nodding slightly. The clip comes from the 2011 HBO TV movie You Don’t Know Jack, where Pacino portrays Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the controversial euthanasia advocate, and the scene represents Kevorkian eating the arrest warrant for his murder trial. The meme is widely used to humorously symbolize having to “eat one’s words,” disposing of incriminating evidence, or intensely internalizing information or a consequence.
