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Remember when 30 degrees was considered tropical? Seasons Past vs Now

This meme is split into two comparative sections. The top section, labeled 'SEASONS IN THE PAST', features four distinct anthropomorphized characters representing each season: a small, cute smiling sun character for Summer, a smug human figure with a crown for Fall, a muscular blue yeti-like creature for Winter, and a smiling flower character for Spring. The bottom section, labeled 'SEASONS NOW', depicts all four seasons as sun-themed characters: Summer is represented as an extremely large, heavily muscular buff sun, Fall and Spring are both mid-sized muscular sun characters, while only Winter remains as a small regular sun character. The joke satirizes the effects of global warming and rising average temperatures, pointing out that almost all seasons are now uncharacteristically hot, aligning with the title's question asking if 30 degrees Celsius was once considered a tropical temperature.
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SEASONS IN THE PAST
SUMMER
FALL
WINTER
SPRING
SEASONS NOW
SUMMER
FALL
WINTER
SPRING

Overview

This meme is split into two comparative sections. The top section, labeled 'SEASONS IN THE PAST', features four distinct anthropomorphized characters representing each season: a small, cute smiling sun character for Summer, a smug human figure with a crown for Fall, a muscular blue yeti-like creature for Winter, and a smiling flower character for Spring. The bottom section, labeled 'SEASONS NOW', depicts all four seasons as sun-themed characters: Summer is represented as an extremely large, heavily muscular buff sun, Fall and Spring are both mid-sized muscular sun characters, while only Winter remains as a small regular sun character. The joke satirizes the effects of global warming and rising average temperatures, pointing out that almost all seasons are now uncharacteristically hot, aligning with the title's question asking if 30 degrees Celsius was once considered a tropical temperature.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the RSS feed for the Reddit Meme community. It is a widely shared relatable meme commenting on contemporary climate trends, created as an original cartoon illustration, with an Imgflip watermark visible at the bottom left indicating it was likely made using the Imgflip meme generation platform before being shared on Reddit.

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