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Pretending to like your bad haircut then crying on the way home

This is a widely relatable humorous meme about the common experience of receiving a bad haircut. The top section has text depicting a short conversation: the barber asks "you like it?", and the customer responds "yup perfect!", pretending to be satisfied to avoid social awkwardness. Below this text is a line introducing the customer's real private reaction: "Also me on the car ride home:", paired with a screenshot of the character Will Byers from Stranger Things sitting in a car, holding his hand over his mouth as he holds back tears, clearly devastated by how poor the haircut actually is. The joke plays on the very common relatable experience of people lying about liking a bad haircut to their barber, only to feel upset about it as soon as they leave the shop.
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Barber: you like it?
Me: yup perfect!
Also me on the car ride home:

Overview

This is a widely relatable humorous meme about the common experience of receiving a bad haircut. The top section has text depicting a short conversation: the barber asks "you like it?", and the customer responds "yup perfect!", pretending to be satisfied to avoid social awkwardness. Below this text is a line introducing the customer's real private reaction: "Also me on the car ride home:", paired with a screenshot of the character Will Byers from Stranger Things sitting in a car, holding his hand over his mouth as he holds back tears, clearly devastated by how poor the haircut actually is. The joke plays on the very common relatable experience of people lying about liking a bad haircut to their barber, only to feel upset about it as soon as they leave the shop.

Origin notes

This meme uses a popular reaction screenshot of Will Byers from the Netflix original series Stranger Things, taken from a canonical scene where the character is distraught. The "lying to your barber about liking a bad haircut" is a long-running viral meme format that has circulated across mainstream social media platforms for several years. This specific iteration of the meme was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, sourced via an RSS feed.

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