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Like they grow on trees

This is a 2x2 panel collage meme. The top left panel shows animated characters Dora the Explorer and Boots the monkey in a cartoon outdoor setting with the text "can you find the lake?". The top right panel is a live-action shot of Robert Pattinson as Batman grinning smugly with the text "Yaah too ez", internet slang for "Yeah that's too easy". The bottom left panel shows Dora and Boots standing with a third armadillo character, with text asking "can you find a job?". The bottom right panel shows Batman looking despondent and defeated, with only ellipsis "..." as text. The joke plays on the contrast between the trivial task of finding a visible lake in the Dora cartoon, and the widely relatable difficult experience of looking for employment in the modern economy, with the title "Like they grow on trees" acting as sarcasm pointing out that jobs are not as easily available as some people imply.
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can you find the lake?
Yaah too ez
can you find a job?
...

Overview

This is a 2x2 panel collage meme. The top left panel shows animated characters Dora the Explorer and Boots the monkey in a cartoon outdoor setting with the text "can you find the lake?". The top right panel is a live-action shot of Robert Pattinson as Batman grinning smugly with the text "Yaah too ez", internet slang for "Yeah that's too easy". The bottom left panel shows Dora and Boots standing with a third armadillo character, with text asking "can you find a job?". The bottom right panel shows Batman looking despondent and defeated, with only ellipsis "..." as text. The joke plays on the contrast between the trivial task of finding a visible lake in the Dora cartoon, and the widely relatable difficult experience of looking for employment in the modern economy, with the title "Like they grow on trees" acting as sarcasm pointing out that jobs are not as easily available as some people imply.

Origin notes

This meme was retrieved from an RSS feed of Reddit r/Meme submissions, with the original user-given title "Like they grow on trees". It is a remix combining two widely used existing meme assets: the Dora the Explorer "viewer challenge" format that has been a popular meme template for years, and reaction shots of Robert Pattinson as Batman from the 2022 The Batman film, which have been heavily used in reaction memes since the film's release.

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