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Someday we're gonna watch people breathe as a hobby

This is a 3-row, 2-column collage comparison meme. The left column is labeled 'Entertainment pre-2010s' and shows people actively engaging in common leisure activities: eating food with others, playing video games, and talking to friends in person, with text captions describing each activity. The right column is labeled 'Entertainment post-2010s' and shows audiences passively consuming content of other people performing those same activities: watching a mukbang streamer eat large amounts of food, watching a streamer play the video game Fortnite, and watching a podcast where hosts talk to each other, with matching captions for each passive activity. The joke of the meme, expanded on by the title, highlights the trend of increasingly passive entertainment consumption, suggesting the trend will eventually go so far that watching other people breathe will become a common hobby.
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Entertainment pre-2010s: Eating food, Playing video games, Talking with friends. Entertainment post-2010s: Watching people eat food, Watching people play video games, Watching people talk to each other

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This is a 3-row, 2-column collage comparison meme. The left column is labeled 'Entertainment pre-2010s' and shows people actively engaging in common leisure activities: eating food with others, playing video games, and talking to friends in person, with text captions describing each activity. The right column is labeled 'Entertainment post-2010s' and shows audiences passively consuming content of other people performing those same activities: watching a mukbang streamer eat large amounts of food, watching a streamer play the video game Fortnite, and watching a podcast where hosts talk to each other, with matching captions for each passive activity. The joke of the meme, expanded on by the title, highlights the trend of increasingly passive entertainment consumption, suggesting the trend will eventually go so far that watching other people breathe will become a common hobby.

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This meme is sourced from the Reddit:Meme RSS feed, as specified. It satirizes the widespread shift in leisure consumption patterns that occurred in the 2010s, when streaming platforms, user-generated content, and creator culture made it common for people to watch others participate in activities they would have previously done themselves, rather than engaging directly in those activities.

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