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Ironic Meme of Wasting Water In Shower While Thinking About Solving Climate Change

This meme features text at the top that reads 'Me taking my hour and a half long shower trying to think of ways to stop climate change', placed over footage of a small brown frog standing in shallow water looking up as a heavy stream of water pours down onto it. The joke relies on irony: the subject is wasting large amounts of water, an action that harms the environment and contributes to climate change, while simultaneously attempting to brainstorm solutions to climate change, mocking performative or hypocritical environmentalist behavior.
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Me taking my hour and a half long shower trying to think of ways to stop climate change

Overview

This meme features text at the top that reads 'Me taking my hour and a half long shower trying to think of ways to stop climate change', placed over footage of a small brown frog standing in shallow water looking up as a heavy stream of water pours down onto it. The joke relies on irony: the subject is wasting large amounts of water, an action that harms the environment and contributes to climate change, while simultaneously attempting to brainstorm solutions to climate change, mocking performative or hypocritical environmentalist behavior.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from an RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg. It is an edited remix: the base clip of the frog in running water is a pre-existing widely shared viral animal clip, with custom humorous text overlaid to create the joke.

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