Umi Walking With a Candlerefers to a GIFof the bunny character Umi from the Steamindie horrorgame Rentalnervously walking down a dark hallway with a candle. Many who saw the GIF at first mistakenly believed that it was from the game Animal Crossing. It went viral on Twitter / Xin 2024 and 2025 due to a series of GIF captionposts, which used the GIF to represent being uncomfortable or nervous in a given situation. In the following weeks, many X users beganparodyingthe tweets that used the GIF earnestly, due to a widely held perception that many of the uncomfortable situations posed in them weren't as scarring as the users had suggested.
