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Everyone is rooting against them lol

This is a single-panel rage comic-style meme referring to sentiments around the FIFA World Cup, likely the 2022 Qatar World Cup. At the top, the text reads 'World Cup situation right now:'. The left side features a large, angry, gritted-teeth rage comic character labeled 'The whole world', saying 'I hate you so much and I hope you lose' to the smaller character on the right. The smaller character has a propeller beanie, smiles happily while holding a drink, has the flag of Argentina on its chest, and responds 'Amazing match!'. The joke highlights the widespread observation that a large portion of global football fans were rooting against Argentina winning the World Cup, while Argentine fans were largely unbothered and enjoying their team's successful run in the tournament.
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Overview

This is a single-panel rage comic-style meme referring to sentiments around the FIFA World Cup, likely the 2022 Qatar World Cup. At the top, the text reads 'World Cup situation right now:'. The left side features a large, angry, gritted-teeth rage comic character labeled 'The whole world', saying 'I hate you so much and I hope you lose' to the smaller character on the right. The smaller character has a propeller beanie, smiles happily while holding a drink, has the flag of Argentina on its chest, and responds 'Amazing match!'. The joke highlights the widespread observation that a large portion of global football fans were rooting against Argentina winning the World Cup, while Argentine fans were largely unbothered and enjoying their team's successful run in the tournament.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of r/Meme (Reddit's meme community), posted with the original title 'Everyone is rooting against them lol'. It edits a pre-existing two-character rage comic dialogue meme template, adding Argentina's flag and World Cup context, and was created using the Mematic mobile meme editor, as evidenced by the 'made with mematic' watermark at the bottom left of the image.

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