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I Am Once Again Asking For You To Release Me

This meme combines the popular 'I am once again asking' meme phrase with a photo of a small baby bird gently held in a person's hand. The messy fluffy down on the baby bird's head gives it a disheveled, earnest look. The overlaid text reads 'I am once again asking for you to release me', which frames the captured bird as repeatedly politely requesting freedom from the hand holding it, creating a funny joke based on the original Bernie Sanders meme template.
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I am once again asking for you to release me

Overview

This meme combines the popular 'I am once again asking' meme phrase with a photo of a small baby bird gently held in a person's hand. The messy fluffy down on the baby bird's head gives it a disheveled, earnest look. The overlaid text reads 'I am once again asking for you to release me', which frames the captured bird as repeatedly politely requesting freedom from the hand holding it, creating a funny joke based on the original Bernie Sanders meme template.

Origin notes

According to the original poster, this meme was created by a Reddit user six years before it was first shared publicly, and was posted to Reddit as an original never-before-seen meme combo. It adapts the famous 'I am once again asking' phrase that originated from Bernie Sanders' viral political fundraising meme, pairing it with a photograph of a real baby bird.

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