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The Great Meme Reset vs Brainrot Memes

A two-panel meme utilizing screenshots from Marvel's Avengers: Endgame. The top panel features Iron Man wearing the Infinity Gauntlet with glowing stones, accompanied by the text 'The Great Meme Reset'. The bottom panel shows Thanos disintegrating into dust, overlaid with 'Brainrot memes'. The meme humorously analogizes the Infinity Gauntlet's reality-altering snap to a 'reset' of low-quality 'brainrot memes', implying their elimination from meme culture.
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The Great Meme Reset; Brainrot memes

Overview

A two-panel meme utilizing screenshots from Marvel's Avengers: Endgame. The top panel features Iron Man wearing the Infinity Gauntlet with glowing stones, accompanied by the text 'The Great Meme Reset'. The bottom panel shows Thanos disintegrating into dust, overlaid with 'Brainrot memes'. The meme humorously analogizes the Infinity Gauntlet's reality-altering snap to a 'reset' of low-quality 'brainrot memes', implying their elimination from meme culture.

Origin notes

Source: Reddit:Meme. The meme is a remix of two key scenes from Avengers: Endgame—Iron Man preparing to snap with the Infinity Gauntlet and Thanos disintegrating after the snap. User-created by adding thematic text overlays to comment on meme culture, specifically targeting 'brainrot memes' (low-quality, repetitive memes) as being 'reset' or eliminated.

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