Good Habits Dark Humor Meme
Dialogue
Overview
This is a two-panel dark humor meme. The first panel shows a smiling bearded man in a suit holding a door open for a woman whose back faces the viewer. The woman asks 'why you always let me go first', and the man responds 'just a habit', making his behavior appear to be polite, chivalrous social etiquette. The second panel reveals the dark punchline, showing a row of open, weathered concrete cell doors referencing widely recognized visuals of execution sites from ISIS propaganda clips, implying the man's habit of letting others go first comes from past experience as an executioner leading victims to their deaths.
Origin notes
This meme is distributed via Reddit Meme RSS feeds under the original title 'good habits'. It is posted in Reddit meme communities, using a popular dark humor format that juxtaposes an innocent, relatable everyday interaction with a shocking, unexpected context to deliver the punchline, combining a generic stock photo of a couple at a doorway with public domain footage stills of historical execution site architecture.