We're cooked! Religious scholars react to Aztec gods being proven real

This meme features text overlaid on a screenshot from the animated series *Smiling Friends*. The top text sets up an absurd hypothetical scenario: gods are scientifically proven to be real, but they are specifically Aztec gods, followed by the label 'Religious Scholars:'. The accompanying image shows the wide-eyed, stunned, defeated expression of the show's Mr. Boss character, with a shocked red bird-like character peeking in from the side. The joke conveys that religious scholars who have spent their careers studying other mainstream religions would be completely horrified and feel doomed by this outcome, as all their work would be rendered irrelevant, leaning into the popular 'we're cooked' sentiment of being stuck in an inescapably bad situation.

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Gods Are Scientifically Proven Real
It's the Aztec Gods
Religious Scholars:

Overview

This meme features text overlaid on a screenshot from the animated series Smiling Friends. The top text sets up an absurd hypothetical scenario: gods are scientifically proven to be real, but they are specifically Aztec gods, followed by the label 'Religious Scholars:'. The accompanying image shows the wide-eyed, stunned, defeated expression of the show's Mr. Boss character, with a shocked red bird-like character peeking in from the side. The joke conveys that religious scholars who have spent their careers studying other mainstream religions would be completely horrified and feel doomed by this outcome, as all their work would be rendered irrelevant, leaning into the popular 'we're cooked' sentiment of being stuck in an inescapably bad situation.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed, with the original submitted title 'We're cooked!'. The base image is a scene from the Adult Swim animated comedy Smiling Friends, confirmed by the [adult swim] watermark visible in the bottom right of the screenshot. This specific reaction shot from the show is a popular meme template used to express extreme shock, dismay, or the feeling of being doomed by an unexpected negative turn of events.

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