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Bad Luck Brian: Family Tattoo Disaster

This is a classic Bad Luck Brian meme that uses the iconic awkward high school yearbook photo of a red-haired, braces-wearing teen grinning awkwardly. It follows the standard Bad Luck Brian format: the top text sets up a heartwarming scenario where a man gets a tattoo of his wife and two children, and the bottom text delivers the devastating punchline that he later learned his wife cheated on him, and neither of the two kids are biologically his. It uses dark humor and the signature Bad Luck Brian trope of a positive setup leading to an awful bad luck twist.
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GETS A TATTOO OF HIS WIFE AND TWO KIDS
LATER FINDS OUT THAT HIS WIFE HAD CHEATED AND THE TWO KIDS AREN'T EVEN HIS

Overview

This is a classic Bad Luck Brian meme that uses the iconic awkward high school yearbook photo of a red-haired, braces-wearing teen grinning awkwardly. It follows the standard Bad Luck Brian format: the top text sets up a heartwarming scenario where a man gets a tattoo of his wife and two children, and the bottom text delivers the devastating punchline that he later learned his wife cheated on him, and neither of the two kids are biologically his. It uses dark humor and the signature Bad Luck Brian trope of a positive setup leading to an awful bad luck twist.

Origin notes

This is a user-created derivative meme built on the original Bad Luck Brian template, which first originated on Reddit. The specific post this variant comes from is titled 'Inspired by a true story' as noted. Bad Luck Brian is one of the most popular early advice animal-style memes from the 2010s, and this variant is a custom joke using the established template circulated on Reddit.

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