Not Egypt's first rodeo
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ROBBING EGYPT BLIND
Overview
This is a satirical meme using the popular two clasped arms agreement template. One arm is marked with the official FIFA logo and the text 'FIFA', while the opposite arm is printed with 'The British Museum'. The text above their clasped hands reads 'ROBBING EGYPT BLIND'. The joke draws a parallel between two widely criticized actions: the British Museum's longstanding retention of looted ancient Egyptian artifacts, and contemporary FIFA controversy involving the seizure of Egyptian antiquities intended for 2034 World Cup promotional displays, framing both entities as being aligned in unjustly taking valuable cultural items from Egypt.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It is a remix of the widely used arm-clasp mutual agreement meme template, edited on the Imgflip platform as indicated by the imgflip.com watermark in the bottom left corner. It was created to satirize both long-running criticism of the British Museum's colonial-era looted artifact collections and recent negative press surrounding FIFA's interactions with Egypt.