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Car Insurance Companies Blame Inflation For 50% Renewal Price Hike

This is a sarcastic meme using a still from the classic animated series *Tom and Jerry*. The top text sets up the scenario: car insurance companies attempting to justify a 50% price increase when customers renew their policies. The character Tom the cat is shown sitting with a smug, disingenuous smile, shrugging with both hands raised, with the text "Inflation" placed next to him. The meme mocks how car insurance providers frequently use inflation as a lazy, unconvincing excuse for exorbitant, unjustified price increases that overcharge consumers.
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Car insurance companies trying to justify a 50% Increase for renewal
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Mockery of car insurance companies using inflation as an excuse for massive renewal price hikes

Overview

This is a sarcastic meme using a still from the classic animated series Tom and Jerry. The top text sets up the scenario: car insurance companies attempting to justify a 50% price increase when customers renew their policies. The character Tom the cat is shown sitting with a smug, disingenuous smile, shrugging with both hands raised, with the text "Inflation" placed next to him. The meme mocks how car insurance providers frequently use inflation as a lazy, unconvincing excuse for exorbitant, unjustified price increases that overcharge consumers.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit Meme subreddit via an RSS feed, with the original submitted title being 'No, I don't think I will renew'. It is a derivative work that edits the widely popular 'Tom shrugging smugly' reaction meme template from Tom and Jerry, adding topical text about car insurance price gouging. The Tom shrug template is commonly used online to represent entities or people making flimsy, unconvincing excuses for unfair behavior.

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