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Engineers vs AI Job Fear Meme

A two-panel meme using a scene from the movie 'The Hateful Eight,' depicting individuals with nooses around their necks. The top panel has text: 'EVERYONE WORRIED THAT AI WILL STEAL THEIR JOBS,' showing two men looking worried/desperate. The bottom panel has text: 'ENGINEERS WHO'VE BEEN LOSING JOBS FOR YEARS' with a final line '-First time?' The bottom panel features a man smirking, contrasting the panic of others with engineers' resigned amusement at job insecurity, implying they're accustomed to losing jobs over time.
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Top Panel
EVERYONE WORRIED THAT AI WILL STEAL THEIR JOBS
Bottom Panel
ENGINEERS WHO'VE BEEN LOSING JOBS FOR YEARS
Bottom Character
-First time?

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Comparison between general fear of AI stealing jobs and engineers' resignation to job loss

Overview

A two-panel meme using a scene from the movie 'The Hateful Eight,' depicting individuals with nooses around their necks. The top panel has text: 'EVERYONE WORRIED THAT AI WILL STEAL THEIR JOBS,' showing two men looking worried/desperate. The bottom panel has text: 'ENGINEERS WHO'VE BEEN LOSING JOBS FOR YEARS' with a final line '-First time?' The bottom panel features a man smirking, contrasting the panic of others with engineers' resigned amusement at job insecurity, implying they're accustomed to losing jobs over time.

Origin notes

This meme is a remix of a screenshot from the 2015 film 'The Hateful Eight,' edited with text overlays. It was originally circulated on Reddit as a meme, leveraging the movie's tense hanging scene to humorously contrast general anxiety about AI job displacement with engineers' long-standing experience of job loss.

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