This surely won’t cause any trouble

This is a collage reaction meme. The left half displays a CNN Science article announcing NASA intends to send a capsule of iconic video game recordings into space to attempt to contact alien life, paired with a graphic of well-known video game characters including Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Master Chief, and Ryu from Street Fighter. The right half uses two reaction shots of Joey Tribbiani from the sitcom Friends: the first panel shows Joey with a smug, amused smirk, while the second panel shows his expression shift dramatically to wide-eyed, shocked concern. The meme uses heavy sarcasm, implying that sending video games (which frequently depict violence, combat, and conflict) to aliens will almost certainly cause negative, harmful consequences, playing directly off the ironic title claiming the action 'surely won’t cause any trouble'.

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NASA to send capsule of recordings of iconic video games in hopes of contacting alien life

Overview

This is a collage reaction meme. The left half displays a CNN Science article announcing NASA intends to send a capsule of iconic video game recordings into space to attempt to contact alien life, paired with a graphic of well-known video game characters including Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, Master Chief, and Ryu from Street Fighter. The right half uses two reaction shots of Joey Tribbiani from the sitcom Friends: the first panel shows Joey with a smug, amused smirk, while the second panel shows his expression shift dramatically to wide-eyed, shocked concern. The meme uses heavy sarcasm, implying that sending video games (which frequently depict violence, combat, and conflict) to aliens will almost certainly cause negative, harmful consequences, playing directly off the ironic title claiming the action 'surely won’t cause any trouble'.

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This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed as specified in the provided metadata. It is a user-created remix that combines a real or parody CNN Science news headline with the widely used two-panel Joey Tribbiani reaction meme template from the hit US sitcom Friends, edited using the Mematic mobile image editor as evidenced by the watermark in the bottom right corner of the image.

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