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Orangutan Roasts Man For Preordering Digital Games

This is a two-panel comic meme. In the first panel, a bearded blonde man in profile looks condescendingly at an orangutan and says 'You are such a dumb animal.' In the second panel, the deadpan unimpressed orangutan responds by calling out the man's own irrational behavior: 'You pre-order digital games as if they're gonna run out.' The joke highlights the absurdity of pre-ordering intangible digital video games, which have no physical supply limits, making the practice unnecessary and framing the man as the far more foolish party in the exchange.
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You are such a dumb animal.
You pre-order digital games as if they're gonna run out

Overview

This is a two-panel comic meme. In the first panel, a bearded blonde man in profile looks condescendingly at an orangutan and says 'You are such a dumb animal.' In the second panel, the deadpan unimpressed orangutan responds by calling out the man's own irrational behavior: 'You pre-order digital games as if they're gonna run out.' The joke highlights the absurdity of pre-ordering intangible digital video games, which have no physical supply limits, making the practice unnecessary and framing the man as the far more foolish party in the exchange.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit:Meme RSS feed. It uses a popular existing two-panel meme format where a human insults a primate only to be roasted for an illogical common human behavior. This specific iteration targets the widely debated gaming community practice of pre-ordering digital copies of games, which have no risk of selling out, making the pre-order unnecessary for access and often only done for minor exclusive bonuses. It was originally posted to meme-focused subreddits on Reddit before being distributed via RSS.

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