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We must boycott! Live action reboot bad CGI cat meme

This two-part meme features text at the top complaining about modern live-action media reboots, paired with a close-up reaction image of a shocked cat at the bottom. The text complains that after looking into a marketed 'live action reboot', you find 99% of the content is CGI, and it is bad quality CGI at that. This expresses common fan frustration that studios market content as 'live action' but almost the entire product is low-quality, poorly executed CGI. The cat's wide, stunned eyes perfectly convey shocked disbelief at this reveal, making the complaint funny and relatable to media fans.
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Live action reboot
*looks inside
99% is cgi(& bad cgi at that)

Overview

This two-part meme features text at the top complaining about modern live-action media reboots, paired with a close-up reaction image of a shocked cat at the bottom. The text complains that after looking into a marketed 'live action reboot', you find 99% of the content is CGI, and it is bad quality CGI at that. This expresses common fan frustration that studios market content as 'live action' but almost the entire product is low-quality, poorly executed CGI. The cat's wide, stunned eyes perfectly convey shocked disbelief at this reveal, making the complaint funny and relatable to media fans.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit as a user-created meme, with the original post title given as 'We must boycott!'. It uses a popular viral reaction photo of a close-up shocked cat to comment on a common complaint within fandom spaces about the quality of modern live-action reboots of animated media.

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