Something Something Sony is Evil
![This is a two-panel edited meme using a famous interrogation scene from the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. In the top panel, the official Sony PlayStation logo is overlaid on the face of the interrogator character Hans Landa, who delivers the line "You're sheltering [Blu-ray Disc logo] of the state," with the Blu-ray logo inserted to replace the name of the persecuted group Landa is referencing. The bottom panel shows the character being interrogated, Perrier LaPadite, with a stoic, guilty, nervous expression as he looks back at Landa. The joke serves as sarcastic criticism of Sony's PlayStation brand: it frames Sony as an authoritarian force cracking down on physical Blu-ray game media, referencing the company's increasing shift to digital-only console models and digital game sales, a policy that has frustrated many consumers who prefer to own physical copies of their games.](https://gagbase.com/i/c/memes/4b/a4/bf/37/4ba4bf372595cc3306625c8219e5a53f.jpeg.webp)
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"You're sheltering [Blu-ray Disc] of the state."
Overview
This is a two-panel edited meme using a famous interrogation scene from the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. In the top panel, the official Sony PlayStation logo is overlaid on the face of the interrogator character Hans Landa, who delivers the line "You're sheltering [Blu-ray Disc logo] of the state," with the Blu-ray logo inserted to replace the name of the persecuted group Landa is referencing. The bottom panel shows the character being interrogated, Perrier LaPadite, with a stoic, guilty, nervous expression as he looks back at Landa. The joke serves as sarcastic criticism of Sony's PlayStation brand: it frames Sony as an authoritarian force cracking down on physical Blu-ray game media, referencing the company's increasing shift to digital-only console models and digital game sales, a policy that has frustrated many consumers who prefer to own physical copies of their games.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, posted with the original title 'Something Something Sony is Evil'. It remixes a widely used existing meme format derived from the opening interrogation scene of Inglourious Basterds, which is commonly employed online to depict scenarios where a powerful authority figure accuses someone of hiding a forbidden or persecuted item or group.
