He attributes it to that segment of the movie becoming a meme and popular reaction gif people use in all types of contexts, whether it’s to show sudden sadness and or a sense of being troubled, or telling other people online to seriously just like… get out; get out of the conversation, get out of their opinions, etc. It’s seriously a universal and functional reaction that LaKeith Stanfield unknowingly became a part of thanks to this movie.
If you remember, LaKeith Stanfield did not have a large role in Get Out.
His role was pretty much for that scene, yet after the movie came out, he was getting noticed everywhere.