Happens Every Time
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When your friend that uses Instagram shows you a meme that you saw on Reddit 5 days ago
Overview
This is a single-panel relatable internet meme that jokes about the common cross-platform meme reposting cycle. The top text describes the situation: when your friend who uses Instagram shows you a meme that you already saw on Reddit five days earlier. The bottom text, paired with an annoyed reaction from a real man, reads 'I'm 30 memes ahead of you Fuckers', humorously expressing that the viewer has already moved on from that meme and seen dozens of newer ones already, highlighting the delay in meme circulation between different platforms.
Origin notes
This meme originates from Reddit as noted in the given source information. It jokes about the common dynamic where most new popular memes originate on Reddit, then get reposted days or weeks later to Instagram, so frequent Reddit users see the content long before their friends who only browse Instagram show it to them. The image of the man is a popular pre-existing viral reaction meme template taken from an old home video that became popular online.
![This is a meta reaction meme composed of two text sections and a screenshot from a TV show. The top text reads 'POV: you see someone post a meme that uses "POV" incorrectly', setting up the first-person perspective as promised by the correct use of the POV label. The lower portion shows Dennis Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia driving a car with a smug, amused expression, paired with the subtitle '[Laughter] You dumb bitch'. The joke centers on mocking people who frequently misuse the POV meme format by labeling content that does not show the viewer's first-person perspective as POV, with the meme itself correctly employing the POV format to show the viewer's mocking reaction to that common mistake.](https://gagbase.com/i/c/memes/b8/0c/c7/5c/b80cc75c296cd6bb63057837cd841cfc.jpeg.webp)
