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Microsoft after acquiring dozens of game studios

This meme uses a popular scene from the 1995 Pixar animated film Toy Story, where child protagonist Andy holds up his favorite cowboy toy Woody and states he no longer wants to play with him. The meme labels Andy as 'Microsoft after acquiring dozens of game studios', sarcastically implying that Microsoft has been abandoning older, pre-existing game franchises and intellectual property after purchasing a large number of new game development studios (including Bethesda and Activision Blizzard) in the early 2020s, framing its older game IP as unwanted discarded toys.
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Microsoft after acquiring dozens of game studios
I don't want to play with you anymore

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The meme satirizes Microsoft sidelining older game IP after purchasing multiple new game studios, using a classic Toy Story scene of a child discarding his old toy

Overview

This meme uses a popular scene from the 1995 Pixar animated film Toy Story, where child protagonist Andy holds up his favorite cowboy toy Woody and states he no longer wants to play with him. The meme labels Andy as 'Microsoft after acquiring dozens of game studios', sarcastically implying that Microsoft has been abandoning older, pre-existing game franchises and intellectual property after purchasing a large number of new game development studios (including Bethesda and Activision Blizzard) in the early 2020s, framing its older game IP as unwanted discarded toys.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, where it was shared under the original title 'Microsoft right now'. The underlying image is a canonical scene from Toy Story, which is a widely circulated meme template. The Imgflip watermark on the bottom left of the image indicates the meme was created using the Imgflip online meme generator before being posted to Reddit, referencing Microsoft's heavily publicized multi-billion dollar video game studio acquisition spree in the early 2020s.

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