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Me When People Joke About My Lore That Actually Happened

This is a black-and-white relatable meme image depicting a cat leaning against a wall, holding its head in one paw with a deeply dejected, distressed, and defeated expression. Overlaid on the image is text that reads 'Me when they joke about my lore but that shit really happened'. The humor comes from the relatable experience of having other people make light of personal past negative experiences, referred to jokingly as 'lore' (a term normally used for fictional universe backstory) that were actually traumatic or seriously upsetting for you.
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Me when they joke about my lore but that shit really happened

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This is a black-and-white relatable meme image depicting a cat leaning against a wall, holding its head in one paw with a deeply dejected, distressed, and defeated expression. Overlaid on the image is text that reads 'Me when they joke about my lore but that shit really happened'. The humor comes from the relatable experience of having other people make light of personal past negative experiences, referred to jokingly as 'lore' (a term normally used for fictional universe backstory) that were actually traumatic or seriously upsetting for you.

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This meme was posted on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as confirmed by the provided source metadata. It combines a widely circulated viral photo of a distressed cat with relatable dark humor text about personal trauma, a common meme format that is frequently shared and remixed across social media platforms including Reddit, Twitter/X, and TikTok.

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