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Socializing with new people expectation meme

This is a single-panel relatable meme. At the top, white text on black rounded rectangular backgrounds reads 'What I think will happen if I socialize With New People'. Below the text is a crudely drawn white fluffy TBH creature (also known as the yippee or autism creature) with a dejected, embarrassed expression, covered in multiple splattered whole tomatoes, with additional splattered tomatoes scattered around it. The joke conveys the relatable social anxiety feeling that interacting with strangers will result in universal rejection and public humiliation, represented metaphorically by being pelted with tomatoes.
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What I think will happen if I socialize With New People

Overview

This is a single-panel relatable meme. At the top, white text on black rounded rectangular backgrounds reads 'What I think will happen if I socialize With New People'. Below the text is a crudely drawn white fluffy TBH creature (also known as the yippee or autism creature) with a dejected, embarrassed expression, covered in multiple splattered whole tomatoes, with additional splattered tomatoes scattered around it. The joke conveys the relatable social anxiety feeling that interacting with strangers will result in universal rejection and public humiliation, represented metaphorically by being pelted with tomatoes.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from an RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg. It uses the widely popular TBH creature, an internet-originated character commonly used in relatable memes for neurodivergent and socially anxious online communities, edited to show the character covered in tomatoes for this specific relatable joke format.

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