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Silksong vs. Game Awards vs. Other Games Pool Meme

A three-panel image meme using a real-life swimming pool scene. The top panel shows an adult labeled 'GAME AWARDS' lifting a child labeled 'EXPEDITION 33' out of the pool. The middle panel shows a distressed child labeled 'SILKSONG' crying in the water. The bottom panel shows a skeleton at the pool bottom labeled 'OTHER GAMES'. The meme humorously critiques the Game Awards' focus on certain games (Expedition 33) while Silksong (a long-delayed game) and other games are overlooked, with 'OTHER GAMES' being metaphorically 'dead' at the bottom.
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GAME AWARDS
Top Child
EXPEDITION 33
Middle Child
SILKSONG
Skeleton
OTHER GAMES

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A humorous comparison of game attention, with Silksong and other games being overlooked while the Game Awards focuses on Expedition 33

Overview

A three-panel image meme using a real-life swimming pool scene. The top panel shows an adult labeled 'GAME AWARDS' lifting a child labeled 'EXPEDITION 33' out of the pool. The middle panel shows a distressed child labeled 'SILKSONG' crying in the water. The bottom panel shows a skeleton at the pool bottom labeled 'OTHER GAMES'. The meme humorously critiques the Game Awards' focus on certain games (Expedition 33) while Silksong (a long-delayed game) and other games are overlooked, with 'OTHER GAMES' being metaphorically 'dead' at the bottom.

Origin notes

This meme is a user-created remix, likely made using the image editing platform imgflip.com (as indicated by the 'imgflip.com' watermark). It repurposes a real photograph of children in a pool, adding text overlays to create a humorous gaming-related commentary. Such memes are commonly shared on gaming communities on Reddit, Twitter, or Discord.

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