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This is a two-panel comparison meme that jokes about climate differences between Europe and Southeast Asia. The top panel is labeled "SEASONS IN THE Europe" and features four anthropomorphized characters representing each season: a small, friendly smiling sun for Summer, a cool neutral sun humanoid with crossed arms for Fall, a large aggressive blue ice monster for Winter, and a happy flower humanoid for Spring. The bottom panel is labeled "SEASONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA", and only features an extremely buff, muscular giant sun character for Summer, while Fall, Winter, and Spring are each represented by RIP-marked tombstones, implying these cool seasons do not exist in Southeast Asia and the region is perpetually extremely hot all year, contrasting with European weather that has seen widely discussed unusually hot summer temperatures in recent years.
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SEASONS IN THE Europe, SEASONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Overview

This is a two-panel comparison meme that jokes about climate differences between Europe and Southeast Asia. The top panel is labeled "SEASONS IN THE Europe" and features four anthropomorphized characters representing each season: a small, friendly smiling sun for Summer, a cool neutral sun humanoid with crossed arms for Fall, a large aggressive blue ice monster for Winter, and a happy flower humanoid for Spring. The bottom panel is labeled "SEASONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA", and only features an extremely buff, muscular giant sun character for Summer, while Fall, Winter, and Spring are each represented by RIP-marked tombstones, implying these cool seasons do not exist in Southeast Asia and the region is perpetually extremely hot all year, contrasting with European weather that has seen widely discussed unusually hot summer temperatures in recent years.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It was created as a humorous reaction to the widespread social media discussion of record-breaking summer heatwaves across Europe in the 2020s, contrasting that experience with the consistently very hot, seasonally uniform climate of Southeast Asia. It is an original hand-drawn digital comic meme made for this joke.

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