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Bow down before me lower beings

This is a 2-panel reaction meme using clips from the animated show SpongeBob SquarePants. The top panel shows a large, terrifying green monster with sharp teeth looming over a small, frightened SpongeBob, with the caption 'Fear of heights' applied to the monster. The bottom panel shows SpongeBob looking completely unimpressed, bored, and unbothered, with the caption 'Construction workers' applied to him. The joke plays on the common perception that construction workers who regularly work at high elevations have no fear of heights, and see the common phobia as completely trivial and non-intimidating.
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Overview

This is a 2-panel reaction meme using clips from the animated show SpongeBob SquarePants. The top panel shows a large, terrifying green monster with sharp teeth looming over a small, frightened SpongeBob, with the caption 'Fear of heights' applied to the monster. The bottom panel shows SpongeBob looking completely unimpressed, bored, and unbothered, with the caption 'Construction workers' applied to him. The joke plays on the common perception that construction workers who regularly work at high elevations have no fear of heights, and see the common phobia as completely trivial and non-intimidating.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced via RSS from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original upload title listed as 'Bow down before me lower beings'. It uses a widely popular 2-panel SpongeBob reaction template pulled from official episodes of the SpongeBob SquarePants animated series, edited with custom text to create the joke about construction workers and fear of heights.

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