It’s true, they’re power hungry over a website.

This meme satirizes petty power trips by online forum and website moderators. The top section contains an exaggerated mod notification stating a user is banned for a week and their post removed for violating an absurdly specific rule (#1827) of not capitalizing the first letter of their post title, with a warning that ban evasion leads to a permanent ban. Below the text is a widely used cartoon template of an overweight, glasses-wearing, smug nerd character sitting barefoot at a computer, representing the stereotypical over-invested internet mod who takes their minor website authority far too seriously. The joke highlights how many moderators wield their small amount of power over trivial, unimportant rules for the sake of feeling important, rather than enforcing meaningful community guidelines.

Text content

Sorry bud but I’m going to have to temporarily ban you for a week and remove your post as it violates rule #1827 by not including a uppercase letter at the start of the title, trying to use other account to avoid this ban will result in a permanent ban.

Overview

This meme satirizes petty power trips by online forum and website moderators. The top section contains an exaggerated mod notification stating a user is banned for a week and their post removed for violating an absurdly specific rule (#1827) of not capitalizing the first letter of their post title, with a warning that ban evasion leads to a permanent ban. Below the text is a widely used cartoon template of an overweight, glasses-wearing, smug nerd character sitting barefoot at a computer, representing the stereotypical over-invested internet mod who takes their minor website authority far too seriously. The joke highlights how many moderators wield their small amount of power over trivial, unimportant rules for the sake of feeling important, rather than enforcing meaningful community guidelines.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original poster title stating 'It’s true, they’re power hungry over a website.' It uses a long-running popular meme template featuring a modified version of the Carl Carlson character from Family Guy, which is commonly used online to mock overly dedicated, petty internet forum moderators who abuse their authority. The meme pairs the existing character template with custom exaggerated ban text to make its satirical point.

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