Using Microsoft Teams reduces your lifespan by 250%
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110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"
Overview
This is a two-panel collage meme. The top text introduces the premise that a 110-year-old Turkish grandmother is sharing her secret to long life, followed by her punchline quote that she has never used Microsoft Teams. The left panel features a photograph of the elderly woman in a white headscarf, and the right panel displays the official Microsoft Teams platform logo. The joke relies on widespread, relatable frustration among office and remote workers that using Microsoft Teams for work meetings, communications, and administrative tasks is stressful and draining, humorously implying that avoiding the platform is the cause of the woman's extremely long lifespan and exaggerating the negative experience of using the work software to match the original title's claim that Teams reduces lifespan by 250%.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of 9Gag, a popular user-generated humor and meme platform. It combines two common internet meme tropes: the long-lived elder sharing absurd, non-medical secrets to longevity, and viral jokes complaining about the stress and inconvenience of using professional work communication tools like Microsoft Teams. It is designed to be relatable to people who use work collaboration software as part of their job.