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This is a satirical edited meme using a scene from the animated series Family Guy. Peter Griffin sits in a car wearing a red fez and seatbelt, looking at a skin tone shade scale held out to him. The scale is edited to label lighter skin tones at the top 'PASSIONATE SPORTS FANS' and darker skin tones at the bottom 'RIOTERS', split by a red line. The meme jokes about the perceived racial double standard in online discussions of fan behavior after the 2022 FIFA World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco, mocking that unruly conduct from lighter-skinned fans is often excused as passionate support, while identical behavior from largely darker-skinned Moroccan fans is framed as rioting.
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A skin tone scale edited to label lighter shades 'PASSIONATE SPORTS FANS' and darker shades 'RIOTERS', separated by a red divider line

Overview

This is a satirical edited meme using a scene from the animated series Family Guy. Peter Griffin sits in a car wearing a red fez and seatbelt, looking at a skin tone shade scale held out to him. The scale is edited to label lighter skin tones at the top 'PASSIONATE SPORTS FANS' and darker skin tones at the bottom 'RIOTERS', split by a red line. The meme jokes about the perceived racial double standard in online discussions of fan behavior after the 2022 FIFA World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco, mocking that unruly conduct from lighter-skinned fans is often excused as passionate support, while identical behavior from largely darker-skinned Moroccan fans is framed as rioting.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It remixes a popular pre-existing Family Guy skin tone comparison meme template commonly used to satirize racial double standards. It was created and circulated in December 2022, shortly after the France vs Morocco 2022 World Cup semi-final match, to mock biased commentary in online comment sections discussing post-match fan behavior.

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