Bro was starving (Hamster Before After Meme)
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Overview
This is a two-panel comparison meme using the character Homelander from the TV series The Boys. The top panel shows a normal, calm, smug-looking Homelander paired with the text 'Hamster before I come home', referencing how hamsters appear unassuming and calm when their owner is away. The bottom panel shows an edited version of Homelander with extremely exaggerated, puffed-up, stuffed cheeks, paired with the text 'Hamster after I come home'. The joke plays on the common behavior of pet hamsters immediately stuffing their cheeks full of food as soon as their owner arrives home, as if they were left starving the entire time the owner was gone, which aligns with the original meme title 'Bro was starving'.
Origin notes
This meme was originally posted on the r/Meme subreddit on Reddit, with the original title 'Bro was starving'. It uses a widely circulated edited screenshot of Homelander (played by Antony Starr) from The Boys, where his cheeks are artificially inflated to look like a stuffed hamster, a popular edit frequently used in memes to represent being overly full or having stuffed one's mouth full of food.