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Dante puts friend in hell over $5 debt meme

This is a single-panel Wojak-style meme. The left side depicts a generic unadorned Wojak character with a confused, annoyed, displeased expression. The right side depicts a Wojak character edited to resemble Dante Alighieri, wearing a laurel wreath and red medieval robes, holding an open copy of the Divine Comedy with a smug, unapologetic expression. The text above the characters reads: 'when you're a friend of Dante reading the Divine comedy and find out he put you in hell having molten gold injected into your bloodstream because you forgot to pay $5 you owed him'. The joke exaggerates the well-documented historical fact that Dante included many real people he held personal grudges against, including former acquaintances, in the circles of hell in his epic poem *The Divine Comedy*, framing an extremely minor $5 debt as justification for an excessively brutal eternal punishment for comedic effect.
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when you're a friend of Dante reading the Divine comedy and find out he put you in hell having molten gold injected into your bloodstream because you forgot to pay $5 you owed him

Overview

This is a single-panel Wojak-style meme. The left side depicts a generic unadorned Wojak character with a confused, annoyed, displeased expression. The right side depicts a Wojak character edited to resemble Dante Alighieri, wearing a laurel wreath and red medieval robes, holding an open copy of the Divine Comedy with a smug, unapologetic expression. The text above the characters reads: 'when you're a friend of Dante reading the Divine comedy and find out he put you in hell having molten gold injected into your bloodstream because you forgot to pay $5 you owed him'. The joke exaggerates the well-documented historical fact that Dante included many real people he held personal grudges against, including former acquaintances, in the circles of hell in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, framing an extremely minor $5 debt as justification for an excessively brutal eternal punishment for comedic effect.

Origin notes

This meme was obtained from the Reddit Meme RSS feed, originally shared on Reddit's meme-focused subreddits. It uses the widely popular Wojak/MS Paint character template, edited to reference Dante Alighieri and his famous work The Divine Comedy, playing on common popular knowledge about Dante's inclusion of personal enemies and associates in his work for comedic effect.

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