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Oxygen as slow poison Oppenheimer reaction meme

This meme has two core components: the top section displays text posing an absurd conspiracy theory that reads "What if Oxygen is a slow poison and It takes 80-100 years to kill us". Below the text is a close-up shot of Cillian Murphy portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer from the 2023 film *Oppenheimer*, staring directly at the viewer with a serious, contemplative, slightly unsettled expression, framing the silly conspiracy theory as if it is a shocking, profound realization that Oppenheimer has just had.
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What if Oxygen is a slow poison and It takes 80-100 years to kill us

Overview

This meme has two core components: the top section displays text posing an absurd conspiracy theory that reads "What if Oxygen is a slow poison and It takes 80-100 years to kill us". Below the text is a close-up shot of Cillian Murphy portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer from the 2023 film Oppenheimer, staring directly at the viewer with a serious, contemplative, slightly unsettled expression, framing the silly conspiracy theory as if it is a shocking, profound realization that Oppenheimer has just had.

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This meme is sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with its original submitted title listed as "May be possible". It is a derivative work using the widely popular Oppenheimer close-up reaction image from the 2023 Christopher Nolan biopic, a common meme format used to represent someone processing a heavy, unexpected insight, with added text to form the joke.

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