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Hate Egyptian Internet Stealing Competition Meme

This meme combines upper text content and a lower reaction image to make a sarcastic complaint about Egyptian internet service providers. The text reads "when I'm in a STEALING COMPETITION competition and my opponent is EGYPTIAN INTERNET COMPANIES", with key phrases emphasized in bold stylized text. Below the text is a low-resolution, blurry screenshot of Squidward Tentacles from the animated series *SpongeBob SquarePants* with a wide-eyed, shocked, stunned expression. The joke rests on the common consumer grievance that Egyptian internet companies regularly "steal" from customers via practices like overcharging for poor service, unfair billing, data throttling, or failing to deliver promised service quality, implying the meme poster recognizes they could never win a "stealing competition" against these providers.
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when I'm in a STEALING COMPETITION competition and my opponent is EGYPTIAN INTERNET COMPANIES

Overview

This meme combines upper text content and a lower reaction image to make a sarcastic complaint about Egyptian internet service providers. The text reads "when I'm in a STEALING COMPETITION competition and my opponent is EGYPTIAN INTERNET COMPANIES", with key phrases emphasized in bold stylized text. Below the text is a low-resolution, blurry screenshot of Squidward Tentacles from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants with a wide-eyed, shocked, stunned expression. The joke rests on the common consumer grievance that Egyptian internet companies regularly "steal" from customers via practices like overcharging for poor service, unfair billing, data throttling, or failing to deliver promised service quality, implying the meme poster recognizes they could never win a "stealing competition" against these providers.

Origin notes

Per provided source information, this meme was originally posted to the Reddit r/Meme subreddit with the title "Hate Egyptian internet". It is a custom edit of the widely circulated low-resolution shocked Squidward reaction meme template, created using the imgflip meme editing platform, as evidenced by the visible imgflip.com watermark in the bottom left corner of the image.

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