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Sarcastic Meme Mocking Pretentious Anti-Mainstream Music Elitism

This meme features a photograph of a man with curly brown hair, a mustache, and a gold bracelet holding his hand to his forehead with his eyes closed, looking exasperated and judgmental. Overlaid on the image is sarcastic text that parodies pretentious anti-mainstream hipster attitudes towards music consumption: it opens by calling someone 'cringe' for listening to bands, dismissing that taste as 'so mainstream', then jokes that the speaker exclusively listens to wild birds outside because they are not signed to any major record label, mocking the absurdity of elitist takes that reject any widely enjoyed media solely for being popular.
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OMG CRINGE
You listen to bands????
that is so MAINSTREAM
i only listen to the birds outside
they are not on a major label

Overview

This meme features a photograph of a man with curly brown hair, a mustache, and a gold bracelet holding his hand to his forehead with his eyes closed, looking exasperated and judgmental. Overlaid on the image is sarcastic text that parodies pretentious anti-mainstream hipster attitudes towards music consumption: it opens by calling someone 'cringe' for listening to bands, dismissing that taste as 'so mainstream', then jokes that the speaker exclusively listens to wild birds outside because they are not signed to any major record label, mocking the absurdity of elitist takes that reject any widely enjoyed media solely for being popular.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg as specified in the provided source information. It is a widely circulated reaction meme that satirizes the overly snobbish, anti-mainstream attitudes common in niche online music fan communities, and is often shared to call out elitist or pretentious opinions about media consumption choices.

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