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Other Apps Stare When You Go To Delete An App Meme

The meme has two lines of text at the top. The first line reads 'Me: *holds an app to delete it*', the second line reads 'The rest of the apps:'. Below the text is a light blue background resembling a mobile phone home screen, with 6 different popular meme characters including Doge, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spongebob Squarepants, a low poly cow, a low poly skeleton, and a pink bird meme icon all staring blankly or awkwardly at the viewer. The joke personifies unused apps on your phone as being nervous and watching you when you are about to delete one of them, a relatable experience for smartphone users.
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Me: holds an app to delete it
The rest of the apps:

Overview

The meme has two lines of text at the top. The first line reads 'Me: holds an app to delete it', the second line reads 'The rest of the apps:'. Below the text is a light blue background resembling a mobile phone home screen, with 6 different popular meme characters including Doge, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spongebob Squarepants, a low poly cow, a low poly skeleton, and a pink bird meme icon all staring blankly or awkwardly at the viewer. The joke personifies unused apps on your phone as being nervous and watching you when you are about to delete one of them, a relatable experience for smartphone users.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg. It uses a popular relatable tech humor format, combining multiple well-known pre-existing meme characters to personify phone apps, and is widely shared on social media platforms as a relatable joke about managing phone storage.

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