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Graduate Guillotine Pun Meme

This is a two-panel pun-based meme that uses the popular mirror reflection meme template. In the top panel, a man stands facing a mirror pointing at his reflection, with encouraging text about graduation that reads: "You Will graduate / You Will get that degree / You Will get the hell out of that school". In the bottom panel, the punchline is revealed: instead of the man's reflection, the figure is a guillotine dressed in a graduation cap with a diploma, that says "Thanks Human". The joke relies on the phonetic similarity between the words "graduate" and "guillotine", creating an absurd pun on the graduation encouragement.
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You Will graduate
You Will get that degree
You Will get the hell out of that school
Thanks Human

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Pun joke about graduation and guillotine

Overview

This is a two-panel pun-based meme that uses the popular mirror reflection meme template. In the top panel, a man stands facing a mirror pointing at his reflection, with encouraging text about graduation that reads: "You Will graduate / You Will get that degree / You Will get the hell out of that school". In the bottom panel, the punchline is revealed: instead of the man's reflection, the figure is a guillotine dressed in a graduation cap with a diploma, that says "Thanks Human". The joke relies on the phonetic similarity between the words "graduate" and "guillotine", creating an absurd pun on the graduation encouragement.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the WholesomeMeme community on X (formerly Twitter), as per the provided source information, it is a darkly humorous wholesome meme that repurposes an existing mirror reflection meme template for the pun joke.

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