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My Advice to the Coming Generation Is Don't Come

This meme features two lines of text at the top followed by a reaction image. The first line of text reads "So what's your advice to the coming generation?", the second line is the response: "Me: Don't come". The accompanying image shows Captain James T. Kirk from the original *Star Trek* series holding his hand out palm forward in a clear stopping, rejecting, or warning gesture. The joke is a darkly humorous, pessimistic commentary on modern societal, economic, and environmental hardships, implying that current conditions are so poor that it is better for future generations not to be born or enter the world at all.
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"So what's your advice to the coming generation?"
Me: Don't come

Overview

This meme features two lines of text at the top followed by a reaction image. The first line of text reads "So what's your advice to the coming generation?", the second line is the response: "Me: Don't come". The accompanying image shows Captain James T. Kirk from the original Star Trek series holding his hand out palm forward in a clear stopping, rejecting, or warning gesture. The joke is a darkly humorous, pessimistic commentary on modern societal, economic, and environmental hardships, implying that current conditions are so poor that it is better for future generations not to be born or enter the world at all.

Origin notes

This meme was shared on X.com (formerly Twitter) by the account @WholesomeMeme, per the provided additional source information. It uses a widely circulated reaction screenshot of actor William Shatner portraying Captain Kirk from the 1960s Star Trek: The Original Series, which is a commonly used stock image for situations involving rejection, refusal, or warning others not to proceed.

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