Having Family On Social Media Feels Like Constant Surveillance Meme
Text content
how it genuinely feels having your family members added on social media
Overview
This is a monochrome (black and white) relatable meme. The scene takes place in a public playground, with a swing visible on the right side of the frame. A towering figure wearing a formal black business suit has a large closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance camera in place of a head, standing with hands on hips looming over a small young boy who is facing the figure, looking up at them. Overlaid white text with a black outline is placed across the center of the image, stating 'how it genuinely feels having your family members added on social media'. The joke draws an analogy between the experience of adding family members to one's social media connections and being under constant surveillance and scrutiny, personified by the intimidating camera-headed authority figure.
Origin notes
This meme is sourced from an RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg. The base visual of the human figure with a CCTV camera for a head is a pre-existing surreal meme template that is commonly edited and overlaid with text to make jokes about surveillance, scrutiny, and being monitored by authority figures or people in one's personal life. This specific version adds text commentary about social media and family dynamics.
![This single-panel meme features top text that reads 'how it feels like to be a person who dosen't [sic, typo for doesn't] like their maternal side relatives:'. Below the text, a simple 3D graphic displays a single slouched, dejected gray stick figure standing far apart from a large, unified group of brightly colored stick figures that represent the user's maternal side family members. The visual communicates the feeling of alienation, disconnection, and lack of belonging that people experience when they do not get along with or relate to their mother's side of the family, aligning with the original post context that the poster prefers their father's side of relatives.](https://gagbase.com/i/c/memes/10/54/1d/78/10541d78771bc6bbb428110aa92765fc.jpeg.webp)
