Gotta save some for the fishermen

This is a single-panel comedic cartoon meme that uses a popular resource inequality template. A pipe labeled 'Fishnets' pours almost all of its flow directly into the open mouth of a large, plump, wealthy-looking cartoon man sitting in an armchair, who is labeled 'Greedy femboys'. Only a small number of drops fall from the pipe to a tiny, emaciated, starving cartoon figure on the ground labeled 'Fishermen trying to make a living', who is desperately reaching up for the drops. The core joke relies on a pun for the word 'fishnets': it refers both to the actual woven nets that fishermen use to catch fish for their livelihood, and to fishnet stockings that are a popular clothing item associated with femboys in internet culture. The meme humorously exaggerates the idea that femboys are hoarding all available fishnets, leaving almost none for the fishermen who need them to survive.

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Fishnets; Greedy femboys; Fishermen trying to make a living

Overview

This is a single-panel comedic cartoon meme that uses a popular resource inequality template. A pipe labeled 'Fishnets' pours almost all of its flow directly into the open mouth of a large, plump, wealthy-looking cartoon man sitting in an armchair, who is labeled 'Greedy femboys'. Only a small number of drops fall from the pipe to a tiny, emaciated, starving cartoon figure on the ground labeled 'Fishermen trying to make a living', who is desperately reaching up for the drops. The core joke relies on a pun for the word 'fishnets': it refers both to the actual woven nets that fishermen use to catch fish for their livelihood, and to fishnet stockings that are a popular clothing item associated with femboys in internet culture. The meme humorously exaggerates the idea that femboys are hoarding all available fishnets, leaving almost none for the fishermen who need them to survive.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted on Reddit in public meme communities, with the official original title being 'Gotta save some for the fishermen'. It is a remixed edit of a widely circulated cartoon template that is traditionally used to critique unequal resource distribution and hoarding by wealthy groups, repurposed here for a lighthearted pun-based joke about the dual definition of the word 'fishnets'.

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