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Football fans are a different breed

This is a 4-panel edited "Amateurs" comic meme. The first panel shows two stick figures representing The Amazing Digital Circus and Deltarune fandoms arguing: the first claims their fandom is the worst, while the second dismisses this saying they have no idea what they are talking about. In the second panel, both turn in surprise to an offscreen speaker who says "AMATEURS." The third panel shows the two angry stick figures confronting the speaker, yelling "WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?". The final panel reveals the speaker is an anthropomorphic soccer (football) ball, repeating "AMATEURS." The gag highlights that football fan culture is widely considered far more toxic, dramatic, and intense than even famously contentious online media fandoms.
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i have the worst fandom
bitch you have no idea what you're talking about
AMATEURS.
WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?
AMATEURS.

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Joke comparing the intensity of football fandom to toxic online media fandoms

Overview

This is a 4-panel edited "Amateurs" comic meme. The first panel shows two stick figures representing The Amazing Digital Circus and Deltarune fandoms arguing: the first claims their fandom is the worst, while the second dismisses this saying they have no idea what they are talking about. In the second panel, both turn in surprise to an offscreen speaker who says "AMATEURS." The third panel shows the two angry stick figures confronting the speaker, yelling "WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?". The final panel reveals the speaker is an anthropomorphic soccer (football) ball, repeating "AMATEURS." The gag highlights that football fan culture is widely considered far more toxic, dramatic, and intense than even famously contentious online media fandoms.

Origin notes

This meme was retrieved from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original upload title "football fans are a different breed". It is a derivative edit of the popular "Amateurs" 4-panel comic template originally created by artist OwlTurd, a common meme format used to depict a hidden third party that is drastically more extreme at a given trait than two arguing participants. The edit adds references to two popular media fandoms with reputations for difficult fanbases to contrast with the infamy of global football fan culture.

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