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Me When Websites Force Me To Make A New Password

This relatable meme opens with text describing a common frustrating website requirement: users cannot reuse their old password and must choose a different new one. Below the text is a 3-row, 4-column grid of official portraits of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, all shot in the identical setting, with the exact same pose, haircut, and neutral expression. The only difference across all portraits is the color of her blazer jacket. The joke draws a clear parallel: when faced with the password change rule, users only make an extremely tiny, superficial change to their existing password (similar to only changing the jacket color while everything else stays identical) so the password is technically 'different' enough to meet the website's requirement, but remains effectively the same password the user already knows.
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Website: New password can not be same as your old password. Please choose a different one. Me:

Overview

This relatable meme opens with text describing a common frustrating website requirement: users cannot reuse their old password and must choose a different new one. Below the text is a 3-row, 4-column grid of official portraits of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, all shot in the identical setting, with the exact same pose, haircut, and neutral expression. The only difference across all portraits is the color of her blazer jacket. The joke draws a clear parallel: when faced with the password change rule, users only make an extremely tiny, superficial change to their existing password (similar to only changing the jacket color while everything else stays identical) so the password is technically 'different' enough to meet the website's requirement, but remains effectively the same password the user already knows.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme. It uses a widely circulated pre-existing meme template made up of the grid of Angela Merkel's same-pose different-jacket portraits, which is commonly used online to joke about situations where only minimal, superficial changes are made to satisfy arbitrary rules.

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