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Southern US resident mocks Europeans struggling with summer heatwaves

This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel displays a charred red skeleton engulfed in bright orange flames, paired with the text 'EUROPEANS GOING THROUGH MULTIPLE HEATWAVES THIS SUMMER' to represent Europeans suffering severely and being overwhelmed by recent record high summer temperatures. The bottom panel uses the famous 'First time?' meme template featuring James Franco's character from the film *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*, who has a noose around his neck and wears an unimpressed, nonchalant expression. This panel is captioned 'ME WHO GREW UP IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES', followed by the line '-First time?'. The core joke is that people who grew up in the southern US are so accustomed to regular extreme summer heat that the unusual heatwaves impacting Europe seem unremarkable to them, playing on the regional difference in typical summer climate conditions.
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EUROPEANS GOING THROUGH MULTIPLE HEATWAVES THIS SUMMER
ME WHO GREW UP IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES
-First time?

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A humorous comparison between European experience of recent summer heatwaves and the routine extreme heat residents of the southern United States are accustomed to, using the popular 'First time?' meme template.

Overview

This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel displays a charred red skeleton engulfed in bright orange flames, paired with the text 'EUROPEANS GOING THROUGH MULTIPLE HEATWAVES THIS SUMMER' to represent Europeans suffering severely and being overwhelmed by recent record high summer temperatures. The bottom panel uses the famous 'First time?' meme template featuring James Franco's character from the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, who has a noose around his neck and wears an unimpressed, nonchalant expression. This panel is captioned 'ME WHO GREW UP IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES', followed by the line '-First time?'. The core joke is that people who grew up in the southern US are so accustomed to regular extreme summer heat that the unusual heatwaves impacting Europe seem unremarkable to them, playing on the regional difference in typical summer climate conditions.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed, as stated in the provided metadata. It is a modified version of the widely circulated 'First time?' meme template, which originates from a scene in the 2018 Coen Brothers western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The creator edited the template to comment on the frequent severe summer heatwaves that have affected large parts of Europe starting from the early 2020s, contrasting this experience with the routinely very hot summer weather common in the southern region of the United States.

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