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Best thing for both of you

This is a two-panel satirical meme using footage from the popular Flex Tape infomercial. The first panel shows Phil Swift, the public face of Flex Seal product ads, labeled 'RELATIONSHIP SUBS' standing next to a leaking clear container marked 'MINOR DISAGREEMENTS IN MARRIAGE'. The second panel shows Phil pressing a piece of Flex Tape labeled 'DIVORCE' over the leak to stop it completely. The joke exaggerates the common stereotype that users on Reddit relationship-focused subreddits immediately recommend divorce as the default solution even for extremely small, trivial marriage conflicts, framing divorce as an over-the-top, disproportionate fix for a minor issue.
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Overview

This is a two-panel satirical meme using footage from the popular Flex Tape infomercial. The first panel shows Phil Swift, the public face of Flex Seal product ads, labeled 'RELATIONSHIP SUBS' standing next to a leaking clear container marked 'MINOR DISAGREEMENTS IN MARRIAGE'. The second panel shows Phil pressing a piece of Flex Tape labeled 'DIVORCE' over the leak to stop it completely. The joke exaggerates the common stereotype that users on Reddit relationship-focused subreddits immediately recommend divorce as the default solution even for extremely small, trivial marriage conflicts, framing divorce as an over-the-top, disproportionate fix for a minor issue.

Origin notes

This meme uses the widely circulated Flex Tape meme template originating from official Flex Seal product infomercials starring Phil Swift, a popular format commonly used to joke about extreme or unnecessarily drastic solutions to minor problems. This specific iteration was posted as a user-created meme on Reddit, with the given original title 'Best thing for both of you'.

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