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Push Tiktaalik Back Into Water Time Machine Meme

This is a two-panel humorous meme. The top section features text reading 'if you had a time machine what would you go back and fix? me:'. The first panel shows a paleoart illustration of Tiktaalik, an extinct prehistoric transitional species between aquatic fish and land-dwelling tetrapods, crawling onto a sandy shore from shallow water, with a stick pointed toward it. The second panel shows a human hand using the stick to nudge Tiktaalik back into the water as the punchline: the meme creator humorously implies they would prevent the evolution of all land-dwelling life to avoid the inconveniences and suffering of modern human existence.
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if you had a time machine what would you go back and fix? me:

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This is a two-panel humorous meme. The top section features text reading 'if you had a time machine what would you go back and fix? me:'. The first panel shows a paleoart illustration of Tiktaalik, an extinct prehistoric transitional species between aquatic fish and land-dwelling tetrapods, crawling onto a sandy shore from shallow water, with a stick pointed toward it. The second panel shows a human hand using the stick to nudge Tiktaalik back into the water as the punchline: the meme creator humorously implies they would prevent the evolution of all land-dwelling life to avoid the inconveniences and suffering of modern human existence.

Origin notes

This meme is a widely circulated variation of the popular 'what would you fix with a time machine' hypothetical meme format. It uses a publicly shared paleoart illustration of Tiktaalik, edited to add the hand and stick element. This specific version was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the account @meme.jpg, as indicated by the provided RSS source information.

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