I Have Hired X to Stare at Youis aphrasal templatespawned by anexploitable GIF captionformat that meme creators continuously inserted Staring Animalsinto, imagined to have been hired to stare at the meme's viewer. The original meme was "I Have Hired This Bird to Stare at You," followed by "I Have Hired This Fox to Stare at You" and then "I Have Hired This Catto Stare at You," among other iterations involving differentanimalsthatrecaptionedthe first phrase. The meme started in 2021, continuing into 2022 and 2023 across platforms likei Funny,Redditand Instagram, among others.
