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This is a 2-panel reaction meme featuring the Cagney Carnation boss character from the game Cuphead. The top panel displays the flower screaming aggressively, paired with the text 'YouTube moderators when they see nudity.' The bottom panel shows the same flower looking relaxed and pleased, paired with the text 'But it\'s in an ad.' The meme satirizes the widely criticized double standard of YouTube content moderation, where regular user content is heavily penalized for containing nudity or explicit content, while explicit pornographic ads are frequently allowed to run on the platform without intervention.

Porn ads are out of control on YouTube

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This is a two-panel relatable comparison meme. The top panel displays an astronomical photograph of the transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the Sun, with the extremely small dot of Mercury labelled next to the massive, glowing Sun. The bottom panel shows a close-up shot of the edge of a human fingertip, with a tiny X mark near its edge labelled as the 'close ad button' found on many mobile websites and applications. The comedic parallel draws attention to how absurdly small ad close buttons are, making them as difficult to accurately target as the tiny planet Mercury appears next to the Sun.

Mercury Transit vs Tiny Ad Close Button

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This meme makes a humorous observation about YouTube's dual revenue stream: companies pay YouTube to show advertisements to users, while users pay YouTube (via a YouTube Premium subscription) to not show advertisements, meaning YouTube profits from both sides regardless. The image uses a still of actor Will Ferrell with a thoughtful, confused expression to emphasize how obvious but eyebrow-raising this business model is.

A Cheat Code: YouTube's Ad Business Model

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This is a meme that uses the popular Lisa Simpson presentation template from the animated TV show *The Simpsons*. The text on the presentation screen makes a logical observation: because Reddit hides native advertisements by disguising them to look just like regular user posts, these ads should be required to allow user comments just like normal posts are. The implicit post title 'Do it you cowards' challenges Reddit to implement this change, poking fun at the fact that Reddit would likely avoid this because comments on ads would be full of user criticism.

Do it you cowards: Reddit ads should allow comments

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This is a joke internet meme that pokes fun at the ubiquitous clickbait online ads for 'single moms in your area'. The top text sets up the joke: the user turns on their Adblocker ad-blocking software, and the image below shows an angry woman standing with her hands on hips with a clearly annoyed, disapproving expression. This image is used to represent how the 'single moms' (the fake subjects of these annoying clickbait ads) react to being blocked by Adblocker.

Me Turns On Adblocker, Single Moms In The Area

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This is a single-panel meme that uses an edited image of Pikachu from Pokémon wearing white-framed sunglasses to express how the creator feels after downvoting every advertisement they see on Reddit. Pikachu's cool, smug expression perfectly matches the joke: the meme frames downvoting unwanted ads on Reddit as a noble duty, making the user feel like a cool, heroic do-gooder cleaning up their feed, which aligns with the original title quote "I’m no hero, I’m just doing my duty."

How I Feel After Downvoting Every Ad I See On Reddit

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This is a two-panel relatable meme using the Jim Halpert whiteboard presentation template from the American TV show *The Office (US)*. In the first panel, Jim Halpert points at text written on the whiteboard that reads 'The more times your ads interrupt my video'. In the second panel, Jim finishes the statement on the whiteboard with 'the more I hate your products' and smiles knowingly at the camera. The meme expresses the common consumer experience that excessive intrusive advertising that interrupts online videos actually causes potential customers to dislike the advertised brand instead of encouraging them to purchase, which is a widely agreed upon opinion by many internet users.

More ads interrupt my video, more I hate your products

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This is an original single-panel meme that depicts the common, relatable frustration of accidentally clicking a native ad on Reddit that is disguised to look like a regular organic meme post. The image shows a square of cinnamon toast with hand-drawn googly eyes, thick eyebrows, and a straight mouth, featuring a pun that plays on the vulgar phrase "what the actual fuck" by replacing "actual" with "cinnamon toast", resulting in the line "what the cinnamon toast fuck is this" to express confusion and annoyance at realizing you clicked an ad instead of a meme.

Accidentally Clicking a Reddit Ad Masquerading as a Meme

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