The real story behind the Beyonce and Jay Z 'side-eye' meme.

You may have seen a new meme circulating, centring around none another than the Queen herself.

No, I’m not talking about Queen Elizabeth shooting questionable looks when President Trump tries to fist pump her. But Queen Bey, giving the side eye to a woman ostensibly trying to flirt with her man.

Beyoncé, 37, and Jay Z, 49, attended Game three of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors.

Sitting court-side, cameras captured the moment Nicole Curran, wife of Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob, lent over the singer to speak with her husband.

Not only did she lean over the 'Lemonade' singer, fans noted, but she seemingly didn't speak to Beyonce... in the short 13-second clip we saw.

Upon viewing the now-viral clip, the bey-hive were mad at the woman's supposed lack of respect for their Queen. And they made their discontent known.

Social media became awash with memes and many compared Curran to "Becky", a woman named in Beyonce's song "Sorry" that refers to the woman Jay Z cheated on his wife with.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé are courtside for Game 3 ???? pic.twitter.com/6mmJuN8Odn

— ESPN (@espn) June 6, 2019

Somebody betta tell Becky she betta BACK????????UP????????OFF????????BEY! ???? #JayZ #Beyonce #NBAFinals pic.twitter.com/LaD5V1jAwQ

— Power 106 (@Power106LA) June 6, 2019

Becky with the sparkly boots. https://t.co/6XYwpSv8px

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) June 6, 2019

when ur havin a great time and then suddenly remember the reason u wrote lemonade https://t.co/dJPf1ZxlxC

— olivemcgowen_writingsmple.pdf (@olivemcgowen) June 6, 2019

Ma'am, get your hot breath out of Queen Beyoncé's proximity, thanks. pic.twitter.com/BCpaEISwY3

— MLeroux (@ozorkon) June 6, 2019

I would leave the earth if Beyonce looked this ready to smack me https://t.co/Yaf4JKeMhN

— KB (@KaraRBrown) June 6, 2019

Would you lean over Beyoncé for a Billion dollars!?!? https://t.co/si387vUSLb

— The Vixen (@TheVixensworld) June 6, 2019

Beyoncé’s energy is screaming “I wish this hoe would back up” and honestly I’m here for it. https://t.co/eYgNPFcYiV

— Dewayne Perkins (@DewaynePerkins) June 6, 2019

Pouring petrol on the fire, Beyonce uploaded a short snippet of the video to her 128 million Instagram followers, cropping out the woman in question.

The reaction has been brutal, and Curran has been trolled on her personal social media accounts.

A senior writer for ESPN shared on Thursday the impact the pile-on has had on Curran, revealing she has had to deactivate her Instagram account after receiving a plethora of death threats.

"Just spoke to Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, about the 'incident' with Beyoncé last night," Ramona Shelburne wrote. "She was in tears. Said she had been getting death threats on social media all night this morning she disabled her IG account just to make it stop."

Just spoke to Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, about the “incident “ with Beyoncé last night. She was in tears. Said she had been getting death threats on social media all night this morning she disabled her IG account just to make it stop.

— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

What actually happened?

Shelbourne shared the reality of that moment was far from what is being implied by the bey-hive.

According to Curran, she was just organising the couple some drinks and the loud atmosphere made hearing a problem.

Curran said she had no idea anything was even amiss until she got home and started seeing texts from friends and checked her social media. She’s invited Jay Z and Beyoncé to the game 3-4 times before. Last night she says she asked if they wanted drinks. Beyoncé asked for water

— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

Curran says Jay Z asked for a vodka soda. She asked if he wanted lime with that. But it was loud in Oracle and she couldn’t hear, so she leaned over. That’s where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance at her come from.

— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

Curran says she then went to go get them those drinks. “There was no hostility. I was trying to be a good hostess,” she said. “I’ve never experienced cyber bullying like this. I can’t believe our players go through this. That kids go through this.“

— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019

And that's all there was to it.

But as we all know, bees really are erratic in who they choose to sting.