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Biotech company keeping bodiless human brains alive in lab is worse than Black Mirror

The image displays three red-tinted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of human brains: two sagittal side views on the left and right, and one axial cross-sectional view in the center, set against a dark near-black background. Bold yellow text below the scans reads 'A BIOTECH COMPANY IS KEEPING BODILESS HUMAN BRAINS ALIVE IN A LAB'. The meme is framed as referencing a dystopian real-world biotechnological development that is compared to the dark, tech-focused dystopian scenarios featured in the show Black Mirror, as noted in the original post title.
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A BIOTECH COMPANY IS KEEPING BODILESS HUMAN BRAINS ALIVE IN A LAB

Overview

The image displays three red-tinted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of human brains: two sagittal side views on the left and right, and one axial cross-sectional view in the center, set against a dark near-black background. Bold yellow text below the scans reads 'A BIOTECH COMPANY IS KEEPING BODILESS HUMAN BRAINS ALIVE IN A LAB'. The meme is framed as referencing a dystopian real-world biotechnological development that is compared to the dark, tech-focused dystopian scenarios featured in the show Black Mirror, as noted in the original post title.

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This content was sourced from an RSS feed of 9Gag posts. The original 9Gag post was titled 'This shit is worse than black mirror', framing the described biotech research as even more dystopian than plots from the popular sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror. The image combines publicly available MRI brain scan imagery with text referencing recent or hypothetical biotech research, formatted as a shareable viral meme for 9Gag's userbase.

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