Laughing Stock Pun Meme Featuring Heavily Downvoted Gaming Comment
Actually the end of physical copies will lower the games price
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WOODEN STOCK, SYNTHETIC STOCK, LAUGHING STOCK
Overview
This meme relies on a pun using the word 'stock'. It first displays two common types of rifle butt stocks: a wooden gun stock labeled 'WOODEN STOCK', followed by a black synthetic plastic gun stock labeled 'SYNTHETIC STOCK'. For the third entry, labeled 'LAUGHING STOCK', it uses a screenshot of a heavily downvoted pinned comment from user 'angelsuikoden' that reads 'Actually the end of physical copies will lower the games price', which has 11 upvotes and 1377 downvotes. The joke plays on the double meaning of 'stock': the firearm part shown in the first two entries, and the idiom 'laughing stock', meaning a person who is widely ridiculed, which refers to the commenter whose unpopular take was massively downvoted by the community.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from a 9Gag RSS feed, with the original post title noting the comment had reached 1450 downvotes at the time of upload. The format is a common pun meme structure that lists literal types of an item, then uses an idiom featuring the same word for the final punchline. The comment screenshot is taken from a thread discussing video game distribution, specifically the shift from physical to digital game copies, where the commenter's take was widely disagreed with by other users.
