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Rich Redditors Giving Gold vs Regular Users Only Upvoting for Good Memes

This is a two-panel comparison meme that jokes about the difference in how Reddit users reward good content. The top panel features Frank Reynolds from *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* holding two Reddit Gold Award icons, captioned 'Rich redditors when they see a good meme: So anyway I started giving Gold Award'. The bottom panel uses the popular confused shrugging old man meme template, captioned 'Me when I see a good meme: guess I'll upvote'. It highlights the contrast between users who can afford to buy Reddit's premium Gold awards to give to creators, and average users who only have access to the free upvote feature to show their appreciation for posts they enjoy.
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Rich redditors when they see a good meme:
So anyway I started giving Gold Award
Me when I see a good meme:
guess I'll upvote

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Comparison between wealthy Reddit users giving paid Gold awards to good memes and average users only giving free upvotes

Overview

This is a two-panel comparison meme that jokes about the difference in how Reddit users reward good content. The top panel features Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia holding two Reddit Gold Award icons, captioned 'Rich redditors when they see a good meme: So anyway I started giving Gold Award'. The bottom panel uses the popular confused shrugging old man meme template, captioned 'Me when I see a good meme: guess I'll upvote'. It highlights the contrast between users who can afford to buy Reddit's premium Gold awards to give to creators, and average users who only have access to the free upvote feature to show their appreciation for posts they enjoy.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed, as specified in the provided source information. It is a derivative work that edits two widely used existing meme templates: the 'So anyway I started blasting' Frank Reynolds reaction meme, and the 'Guess I'll die' shrugging elderly man meme, modifying their text to reference Reddit's platform-specific reward and upvote system.

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This is a two-panel comparative humor meme. The top panel depicts Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia holding two Reddit Gold award icons, with text above reading 'Rich redditors when they see a good meme:' and text below reading 'So anyway I started giving Gold Award', referencing the behavior of Reddit users who spend money to give paid Gold awards to high-quality content. The bottom panel shows a popular viral image of an older man in a red turtleneck shrugging with his hands open, with text above reading 'Me when I see a good meme:' and text below reading 'guess I'll upvote', joking that average users who cannot afford paid awards only have free upvotes to give as appreciation for good memes on the platform.

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