Tag: relatable anxiety

This is a two-panel comparison meme. The top panel displays a large commercial airliner jet engine parked on an airport tarmac, with text noting its rotation speed is 8,000 rpm. The bottom panel shows a small high-speed dental handpiece (dental drill), with text revealing it operates at 400,000 rpm, 50 times faster than the jet engine. The punchline text advises patients not to move much during dental procedures, paired with the implied joke that even a small involuntary movement like a sneeze could result in serious harm from the extremely fast drill, playing on common public anxiety about dental visits.

One sneeze and it’s all over

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The meme features a dark, close-up shot of the character Ellie from *The Last of Us* video game franchise with an exaggerated wide-eyed, unsettling shocked expression. Overlaid on the center of the image is text describing a disturbing hypothetical scenario: being kidnapped when you have a stuffy/blocked nose, then having your mouth taped shut, which would leave you completely unable to breathe. The character's alarmed expression and low, creepy lighting amplify the frightening, uncomfortable feeling of the presented thought experiment.

This is genuinely so scary wth

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This is a 4-panel relatable webcomic that depicts the common shared anxiety people feel while waiting for credit/debit card payment to process at checkout. In the first panel, the customer stands anxiously at the checkout with clenched fists as the terminal displays "PAYMENT PROCESSING...". In the second panel, the customer becomes increasingly stressed, sweating and panicking while the cashier also grows tense as everyone waits. The third panel zooms in on the payment terminal showing it has finally processed and displays "APPROVED!". In the fourth panel, both the customer and cashier celebrate wildly in relief that the payment went through, exaggerating the relatable stress of slow payment processing.

Panic at every swipe payment processing meme

This is a 4-panel relatable w…