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Ordered a scam guide book and it never arrived

This is a single-panel meme. The top of the image displays text setting up a POV scenario: it has been 6 months since you ordered a book titled 'How to scam people online', and the book still has not been delivered. Below the text is a screenshot of the character Light Yagami from the anime Death Note, shown with an extremely furious, enraged expression. The core joke relies on situational irony: the person who wanted to learn how to scam others was scammed themselves by the seller who never sent the book they paid for, making their over-the-top anger both humorous and relatable.
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POV: It's been 6 months since you ordered the book on "How to scam people online" and it hasn't arrived

Overview

This is a single-panel meme. The top of the image displays text setting up a POV scenario: it has been 6 months since you ordered a book titled 'How to scam people online', and the book still has not been delivered. Below the text is a screenshot of the character Light Yagami from the anime Death Note, shown with an extremely furious, enraged expression. The core joke relies on situational irony: the person who wanted to learn how to scam others was scammed themselves by the seller who never sent the book they paid for, making their over-the-top anger both humorous and relatable.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit as specified in the provided additional information. It repurposes a widely circulated reaction screenshot of Light Yagami from the popular anime series Death Note, paired with original ironic text to create the comedic effect. This format of adding humorous POV context text to well-known reaction images is a common meme format on Reddit and other mainstream social media platforms.

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