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It Be Like That: Band Members Edition

A two-panel meme satirizing the visibility of band members. The top panel depicts a pool scene with three elements: a child labeled 'Vocalist' being happily held by an adult labeled 'Normal people', while another child labeled 'Main guitarist' appears distressed and partially submerged in water. The bottom panel shows an underwater scene with a skeleton sitting on a chair, labeled 'Rest of the band members'. The humor lies in exaggerating how vocalists and main guitarists often receive the most attention from audiences ('Normal people'), while other band members are overlooked or forgotten, symbolized by the skeleton representing obscurity.
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Comparison of band members' visibility: Vocalist and Main Guitarist receiving attention while Rest of the band members are overlooked

Overview

A two-panel meme satirizing the visibility of band members. The top panel depicts a pool scene with three elements: a child labeled 'Vocalist' being happily held by an adult labeled 'Normal people', while another child labeled 'Main guitarist' appears distressed and partially submerged in water. The bottom panel shows an underwater scene with a skeleton sitting on a chair, labeled 'Rest of the band members'. The humor lies in exaggerating how vocalists and main guitarists often receive the most attention from audiences ('Normal people'), while other band members are overlooked or forgotten, symbolized by the skeleton representing obscurity.

Origin notes

The meme was created using the mobile editing application Mematic, as indicated by the watermark 'made with mematic' at the bottom. It was sourced from the Reddit community 'Meme', likely user-generated by combining a real-life pool photograph with an underwater skeleton image and adding overlaid text labels to convey the joke about band member attention dynamics.

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