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Landlord 3x Rent Income Requirement Joke

This image is a screenshot of a public post from X (formerly Twitter). The post is from a user with display name 'slate' and handle @PleaseBeGneiss, whose profile picture is a cartoon slate rock. The post contains a two-line relatable joke: first, a landlord tells the poster their income must be at least 3 times the cost of rent to qualify as a tenant, and the poster responds asking if the landlord can relay that income requirement to their boss, humorously highlighting that their current wage is too low to meet standard rental income requirements, commenting on both high rental barriers and stagnant low pay for workers.
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Dialogue

landlord: your income needs to be 3x rent
me: can you tell my boss that

Overview

This image is a screenshot of a public post from X (formerly Twitter). The post is from a user with display name 'slate' and handle @PleaseBeGneiss, whose profile picture is a cartoon slate rock. The post contains a two-line relatable joke: first, a landlord tells the poster their income must be at least 3 times the cost of rent to qualify as a tenant, and the poster responds asking if the landlord can relay that income requirement to their boss, humorously highlighting that their current wage is too low to meet standard rental income requirements, commenting on both high rental barriers and stagnant low pay for workers.

Origin notes

This original post was first published on X (formerly Twitter) by user @PleaseBeGneiss, a user with a geology/rock pun themed username (gneiss is a type of metamorphic rock, slate is another type of rock). It was shared widely as a relatable cost of living meme, and this instance is sourced from the X.com meme.jpg RSS feed.

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