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How it feels waking up on Monday

This meme uses an unedited scene from the 2017 science fiction film *Blade Runner 2049*. It shows the protagonist K, played by Ryan Gosling, sitting slumped and dejected on snow-covered stone steps during a heavy snowfall, looking completely physically and emotionally exhausted, defeated, and drained of all energy. The visual is paired with the title to represent the common relatable feeling of deep exhaustion, dread, and low motivation that most people experience when waking up on a Monday morning at the start of a new work or school week.
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Overview

This meme uses an unedited scene from the 2017 science fiction film Blade Runner 2049. It shows the protagonist K, played by Ryan Gosling, sitting slumped and dejected on snow-covered stone steps during a heavy snowfall, looking completely physically and emotionally exhausted, defeated, and drained of all energy. The visual is paired with the title to represent the common relatable feeling of deep exhaustion, dread, and low motivation that most people experience when waking up on a Monday morning at the start of a new work or school week.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted on Reddit's meme communities, with the given title "how it feels waking up on monday". The underlying visual is taken directly from a well-known scene in Blade Runner 2049, where the lead character is left drained and defeated after a series of hardships. This scene has been widely adopted as a reaction meme across various social media platforms to represent feelings of exhaustion, defeat, and general miserable low mood for a variety of relatable situations, with the Monday wake-up context being one of the most popular uses of the scene as a meme.

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