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Book Readers' Devastation Over Favorite Character's Tragic Death

A four-panel meme featuring Peter Griffin from Family Guy, each panel showing him in a straitjacket sitting on a couch with the same text overlay: 'Book readers after their favorite character goes through the most darkest, soul shattering, mind breaking thing ever imaginable then dies out of nowhere.' Peter displays a sequence of distressed expressions and agitated movements, including opening his mouth wide, slumping, and convulsing, humorously depicting the emotional breakdown of a book reader reacting to their favorite character's tragic and unexpected death.
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Book readers after their favorite character goes through the most darkest, soul shattering, mind breaking thing ever imaginable then dies out of nowhere.

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A four-panel meme featuring Peter Griffin from Family Guy, each panel showing him in a straitjacket sitting on a couch with the same text overlay: 'Book readers after their favorite character goes through the most darkest, soul shattering, mind breaking thing ever imaginable then dies out of nowhere.' Peter displays a sequence of distressed expressions and agitated movements, including opening his mouth wide, slumping, and convulsing, humorously depicting the emotional breakdown of a book reader reacting to their favorite character's tragic and unexpected death.

Origin notes

The meme is a remix of a scene from the animated TV show Family Guy, featuring Peter Griffin. It was created by editing a screenshot of Peter in a straitjacket (likely referencing a scene where he is institutionalized) to loop his distressed movements, paired with text about book readers' reactions to character deaths. The source platform is Reddit, as indicated, and it includes a watermark 'moments © Fox' indicating the original content is owned by Fox.

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