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What heatwave feels like in Europe

This is a humorous exaggerated meme about extreme summer heatwaves in Europe. The image depicts outer space with the full planet Earth positioned on the left side, and the extremely hot glowing Sun on the far right side. A dashed white line runs between the Earth and the Sun, and a small glowing red dot marked 'Europe' with a red arrow is placed extremely close to the Sun, far away from the Earth. This visual gag exaggerates the experience of record high temperatures in Europe during heatwaves, jokingly implying that the region feels so hot it has drifted almost all the way to the Sun.
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Overview

This is a humorous exaggerated meme about extreme summer heatwaves in Europe. The image depicts outer space with the full planet Earth positioned on the left side, and the extremely hot glowing Sun on the far right side. A dashed white line runs between the Earth and the Sun, and a small glowing red dot marked 'Europe' with a red arrow is placed extremely close to the Sun, far away from the Earth. This visual gag exaggerates the experience of record high temperatures in Europe during heatwaves, jokingly implying that the region feels so hot it has drifted almost all the way to the Sun.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed for the Reddit Meme (r/Meme) subreddit, originally posted with the title 'what heatwave feels like'. It was created as a relatable comedic reaction to widespread severe summer heatwaves that have affected Europe across the 2020s, and is shared across social media to humorously vent about uncomfortably high hot weather temperatures.

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