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Me after surviving January

A meme featuring a screenshot from the 2021 film 'The Suicide Squad' showing the character The Thinker (Gaius Grieves), a bald man with a prominent white mustache and eyebrows, in a dramatic conversation. The top text overlay reads 'Me after surviving January', while the character's subtitle is 'Humanity is a failed experiment'. The meme humorously uses the character's intense, pessimistic line to exaggerate the relief or exhaustion of getting through the month of January. A 'made with mematic' watermark is visible at the bottom left.
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Humanity is a failed experiment.

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Me after surviving January

Overview

A meme featuring a screenshot from the 2021 film 'The Suicide Squad' showing the character The Thinker (Gaius Grieves), a bald man with a prominent white mustache and eyebrows, in a dramatic conversation. The top text overlay reads 'Me after surviving January', while the character's subtitle is 'Humanity is a failed experiment'. The meme humorously uses the character's intense, pessimistic line to exaggerate the relief or exhaustion of getting through the month of January. A 'made with mematic' watermark is visible at the bottom left.

Origin notes

This meme is a user-created remix combining a screenshot from the movie 'The Suicide Squad' (specifically a scene with The Thinker, played by Peter Capaldi) with added text overlays. It was created using the Mematic mobile editing tool, as indicated by the watermark. The original source is Reddit's Meme community, with the original title 'Me frrrfrrrr'.

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