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Artemis II: Crew Seeing Flashes at 8PM

This is a 2x2 grid meme containing a sexual pun referencing the NASA Artemis II moon mission. The top-left panel features a bearded Black man wearing a baseball cap and glasses with a neutral, confused expression. The top-right panel contains the text: 'ARTEMIS II CREW SEEING FLASHES AT 8PM'. The bottom-left panel shows a suggestive close-up: a car automatic gear shift with a person's knee positioned to create a visual innuendo, playing on the double meaning of 'flashes' (sexual slang for ejaculation, rather than optical flashes astronauts might experience in space). The bottom-right panel shows the same man from the top-left panel smiling approvingly at the dirty joke.
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ARTEMIS II CREW SEEING FLASHES AT 8PM

Overview

This is a 2x2 grid meme containing a sexual pun referencing the NASA Artemis II moon mission. The top-left panel features a bearded Black man wearing a baseball cap and glasses with a neutral, confused expression. The top-right panel contains the text: 'ARTEMIS II CREW SEEING FLASHES AT 8PM'. The bottom-left panel shows a suggestive close-up: a car automatic gear shift with a person's knee positioned to create a visual innuendo, playing on the double meaning of 'flashes' (sexual slang for ejaculation, rather than optical flashes astronauts might experience in space). The bottom-right panel shows the same man from the top-left panel smiling approvingly at the dirty joke.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, posted as a user-created joke with the original title 'Artemis II'. It uses the common reaction meme format of neutral then smiling approval for a bad/sexual pun, and was created using the imgflip meme generator.

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