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DiCaprio dating a 29-year-old girlfriend at Oscars sarcastic joke

This meme features a photo of 51-year-old actor Leonardo DiCaprio sitting beside his 29-year-old girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti at the 2024 Oscars ceremony. The accompanying X (Twitter) post by Zach Zimmerman adds a sarcastic punchline: 'you all bullied him into dating a grandma'. The joke references the long-running internet meme about Leonardo DiCaprio's well-documented public pattern of only dating women 25 years old or younger, so 29 is framed as humorously 'old' relative to his prior dating history, mocking the public discourse around his dating preferences.
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you all bullied him into dating a grandma

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51-year-old Leonardo Dicaprio with his 29-year-old girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti at the Oscars

Overview

This meme features a photo of 51-year-old actor Leonardo DiCaprio sitting beside his 29-year-old girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti at the 2024 Oscars ceremony. The accompanying X (Twitter) post by Zach Zimmerman adds a sarcastic punchline: 'you all bullied him into dating a grandma'. The joke references the long-running internet meme about Leonardo DiCaprio's well-documented public pattern of only dating women 25 years old or younger, so 29 is framed as humorously 'old' relative to his prior dating history, mocking the public discourse around his dating preferences.

Origin notes

The meme was originally created and posted on X (formerly Twitter) by user Zach Zimmerman (@zzdoublezz), and was later shared as an RSS feed item on 9Gag as noted in the provided source information. It draws on the widely circulated, longstanding public joke about Leonardo DiCaprio's self-imposed dating age limit to deliver its comedic punchline.

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