Can this timeline get any stranger?

Overlaid text joking about public apathy to alien government disclosure news

This is a two-panel reaction meme utilizing a famous scene from the 1993 film Jurassic Park. In the top panel, the character Dennis Nedry, wearing a floral Hawaiian shirt, excitedly announces to his companion Lewis Dodgson (the man in the red polo and straw hat) 'THE GOVERNMENT JUST ADMITTED ALIENS ARE REAL!'. In the bottom panel, Nedry smirks and comments 'SEE? NOBODY CARES.' The joke satirizes widespread public apathy toward even previously unthinkably huge news, as contemporary events have become so chaotic and unprecedented that shocking announcements no longer generate the strong public reaction they would have in the past, aligning with the meme's core question about how strange the current shared 'timeline' of events has become.

This meme was originally shared on the r/Meme subreddit on Reddit. It uses the widely popular 'See? Nobody Cares' meme template pulled directly from the scene in Jurassic Park where Nedry meets Dodgson at a tropical beach restaurant to receive payment for stealing dinosaur embryos. This version of the meme references the series of U.S. government hearings and official disclosures about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP, colloquially known as UFOs/alien craft) in the early 2020s, which received far less public attention and fanfare than many expected such a huge, paradigm-shifting announcement would get.