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Haaland's PR Team Overtime Meme

This is a single-panel reaction meme consisting of top text paired with a widely recognized paparazzi photo. The top text reads 'Haaland's PR team working overtime and trying to keep the hype going at all costs.' Below the text is an image of actor Ben Affleck standing outside a building, looking extremely exhausted, half-asleep, and drained, holding a cigarette and sunglasses in one hand with his other hand tucked into his jeans pocket. The image of Affleck is used as a humorous stand-in for footballer Erling Haaland's public relations staff, with the joke sarcastically implying the PR team is burnt out and overworked from constant efforts to maintain high public hype and positive coverage of Haaland.
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Haaland's PR team working overtime and trying to keep the hype going at all costs.

Overview

This is a single-panel reaction meme consisting of top text paired with a widely recognized paparazzi photo. The top text reads 'Haaland's PR team working overtime and trying to keep the hype going at all costs.' Below the text is an image of actor Ben Affleck standing outside a building, looking extremely exhausted, half-asleep, and drained, holding a cigarette and sunglasses in one hand with his other hand tucked into his jeans pocket. The image of Affleck is used as a humorous stand-in for footballer Erling Haaland's public relations staff, with the joke sarcastically implying the PR team is burnt out and overworked from constant efforts to maintain high public hype and positive coverage of Haaland.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the Reddit:Meme RSS feed. It uses the popular pre-existing 'tired Ben Affleck' paparazzi reaction image, which is commonly circulated online to represent burnout, exhaustion, and being overworked. The creator of this iteration added custom text referencing Erling Haaland's PR team to make a football industry-focused sarcastic joke.

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