Cigarettes but with protein in them Wolf of Wall Street Meme

This is a captioned meme using a still from the 2013 film *The Wolf of Wall Street*, featuring characters Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey) and Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) sitting at a restaurant table in a high-rise space with a city skyline visible through the window behind them. Mark Hanna gestures emphatically with his hand as if explaining a brilliant idea, while Jordan Belfort listens attentively. The overlaid top text reads 'Cigarettes but with protein in them'. The joke satirizes the common trend of adding protein to unhealthy consumer products to market them as more health-conscious, taking the trend to an absurd, illogical extreme by applying it to inherently harmful cigarettes that would gain no health benefit from added protein. The original scene context of Hanna giving Belfort unethical, over-the-top finance career advice makes the absurd product pitch even more humorous, as it aligns perfectly with the scene's tone of outlandish, nonsensical salesmanship.

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"Cigarettes but with protein in them"

Overview

This is a captioned meme using a still from the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, featuring characters Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey) and Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) sitting at a restaurant table in a high-rise space with a city skyline visible through the window behind them. Mark Hanna gestures emphatically with his hand as if explaining a brilliant idea, while Jordan Belfort listens attentively. The overlaid top text reads 'Cigarettes but with protein in them'. The joke satirizes the common trend of adding protein to unhealthy consumer products to market them as more health-conscious, taking the trend to an absurd, illogical extreme by applying it to inherently harmful cigarettes that would gain no health benefit from added protein. The original scene context of Hanna giving Belfort unethical, over-the-top finance career advice makes the absurd product pitch even more humorous, as it aligns perfectly with the scene's tone of outlandish, nonsensical salesmanship.

Origin notes

The base image is a still from the iconic lunch scene in Martin Scorsese's 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street. This edited meme version was originally posted on Reddit as noted in the provided source information, with the original poster's title stating 'need them urg' as a humorous expression of wanting the absurd fictional product. This scene is an extremely popular pre-existing meme template commonly used to depict characters pitching ridiculous, over-the-top or nonsensical ideas to a receptive listener.

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