American in America vs American in Japan

Wow, this is a soulless corporate dystopia trying to get me to buy things. The consequences of capitalism

This two-panel Wojak (Soyjak) meme satirizes a common double standard held by many American travelers and Japan enthusiasts: the top panel features a disapproving Soyjak looking at New York's Times Square, a dense commercial area packed with billboards and advertisements, complaining it is a soulless corporate dystopia and a negative consequence of capitalism. The bottom panel shows the same style of Soyjak extremely excited and ecstatic looking at an equally (if not more) commercial, billboard-filled city street in Tokyo Japan, revealing the romanticized double standard toward Japanese urban culture compared to domestic American commercial culture.

This meme originated on Reddit, as noted in the original title provided. It is a satirical Wojak-based meme that spread widely across Western social media, mocking the common trend of Westerners romanticizing Japanese culture and city life while unfairly criticizing their own home country's commercial landscape, even when both share nearly identical features of capitalist advertising density.