Entanglement Will Smith Marriage Joke

A sarcastic joke contrasting Will Smith's successful career with his publicly troubled marriage

This meme features a red carpet portrait of actor Will Smith with two blocks of overlaid white text. The first text block highlights Will Smith's overwhelmingly positive public image in the 1990s and 2000s: he was universally loved by audiences, had no major public scandals, and nearly every film he starred in was a commercial success. The second text block delivers the sarcastic punchline, joking that despite all his success and public approval, he still ended up marrying someone who dislikes him, referencing his widely publicized marital conflicts with Jada Pinkett Smith, including her public admission of an 'entanglement' (extramarital relationship) with singer August Alsina, and other public relationship drama that damaged his public image in the 2020s.

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the platform 9Gag, with the original uploaded title 'Entanglement' which directly references the viral term Jada Pinkett Smith used to describe her extramarital affair during a public recorded conversation with Will Smith on their talk show Red Table Talk. Jokes about Will Smith's marital struggles became a widespread internet trend after the couple's relationship issues became public, and grew even more popular after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards over a joke about Jada's hair. This meme is part of that larger trend of sarcastic content about Will Smith's personal life circulating on popular meme platforms like 9Gag.