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How to disable these upsetting news notifications

This is a two-panel collage reaction meme. The left half of the first panel displays the navigation bar of a German-language social media or news app, where the inbox tab (labeled 'Posteingang') has a 1 unread notification badge. The right half of the first panel shows a Black man smiling excitedly, looking toward the app interface as he anticipates the notification content. The left half of the second panel shows the opened inbox, where the notification is a news alert stating that 8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 were killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana. The right half of the second panel features the same man looking shocked, horrified, and deeply distressed. The meme captures the relatable frustrating experience of being excited for a notification expecting personal good news, only to be confronted with traumatic, upsetting world news, paired with the original poster's question of how to turn off these types of notifications.
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Overview

This is a two-panel collage reaction meme. The left half of the first panel displays the navigation bar of a German-language social media or news app, where the inbox tab (labeled 'Posteingang') has a 1 unread notification badge. The right half of the first panel shows a Black man smiling excitedly, looking toward the app interface as he anticipates the notification content. The left half of the second panel shows the opened inbox, where the notification is a news alert stating that 8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 were killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana. The right half of the second panel features the same man looking shocked, horrified, and deeply distressed. The meme captures the relatable frustrating experience of being excited for a notification expecting personal good news, only to be confronted with traumatic, upsetting world news, paired with the original poster's question of how to turn off these types of notifications.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted on Reddit in the r/Meme subreddit with the original title 'How to disable this?'. It combines a widely used pre-existing two-panel reaction meme template of a man shifting from excitement to shock with a screenshot of a German-language news/social media app notification about a real Louisiana mass shooting event.

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