--- title: This Monsters Inc Faceswap Meme Will Make You Nostalgic description: The faceswap meme between James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski will make you nostalgic canonical: https://time.com/5674277/mike-wazowski-meme/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-12T15:35:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:14.167Z og:title: Monsters Never Looked So Good Thanks to This Faceswap Meme og:description: James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are the stars og:url: https://time.com/5674277/mike-wazowski-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Monsters Never Looked So Good Thanks to This Faceswap Meme twitter:description: James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are the stars twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Stoic Mike Wazowski-Sulley Face Swap Reaction Meme Is a Monstrously Rollicking Good Time by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 12, 2019 3:35 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 12, 2019 3:35 PM UTC There’s a recent meme that may have you feeling nostalgic. The meme spreading across social media is taken from [Pixar](http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1993637,00.html)’s 2002 film [_Monsters Inc_.](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/13/pixars-monsters-university-when-hairy-met-scary/) and features a faceswap between James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski resulting in a funny, yet familiar image. The fun seems to have started back on July 15th, 2019, when the Sulley-Core [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/SulleyCore/photos/a.236188037219309/473687530136024/) uploaded an image that swapped the faces of Mike and Sulley, according to the [Know Your Meme website](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mike-wazowski-sulley-face-swap). The fairly innocuous faceswap post must have struck a nostalgic nerve, because it quickly racked up over 1,100 likes and over 6,800 shares. The Facebook post was apparently very inspiring as the faceswapped image turned into a meme, spreading across Twitter and Reddit as people used the resulting facial expressions to express various emotions, mostly of benign resignation. According to [Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mike-wazowski-sulley-face-swap), the first folks to start spreading the new meme were on Spanish-language Twitter, possibly started by Twitter user @Spotymeme: > [](https://twitter.com/Spotymeme/status/1155955056627216386) From there, the reaction meme spread across social media and on Reddit, including a new version that edited out Sulley, leaving just Mike looking stoic and philosophical. From there the clever minds behind the internet’s silliest, darkest, and drollest memes were off and running turning a faceswap of a [childhood memory](https://time.com/3928422/inside-out-toy-story-pixar/) into a visual punchline: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5674277/mike-wazowski-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5674277/mike-wazowski-meme/"},"headline":"The Stoic Mike Wazowski-Sulley Face Swap Reaction Meme Is a Monstrously Rollicking Good Time","datePublished":"2019-09-12T15:35:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:14.167Z","description":"James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mike Wazowski never looked so good.","url":"https://time.com/5674277/mike-wazowski-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","memes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5674277/mike-wazowski-meme/","name":"The Stoic Mike Wazowski-Sulley Face Swap Reaction Meme Is a Monstrously Rollicking Good Time"}}]}] ```