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This is an 8-panel (4 rows, 2 columns) meme using a comedic scene from the TV show Friends. Left column panels show Phoebe spelling out the start of a media title progressively: first 'L', then 'Lo', then 'Lor', before confirming 'Yes, I want to watch it!'. Right column panels show Joey, labeled as Netflix, guessing the title in sequence: first 'La La Land?', then 'Logan?', then 'Lord of the rings?', before responding 'Oh we don't have it' once Phoebe confirms her desired content. The joke is relatable to streaming service users, who often find popular, highly desired media like the Lord of the Rings franchise is not available on platforms like Netflix despite high demand, building up user hope before delivering disappointment.

Don't give me hope: Netflix doesn't have Lord of the Rings

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This is a 4-panel comic meme. In the first panel, an anthropomorphic office worker with a computer monitor for a head smiles and asks the printer to print a document. In the second panel, the anthropomorphic printer, also smiling, responds that it is low on cyan ink, with a warning indicator showing low cyan levels next to it. In the third panel, the monitor-headed worker keeps smiling and reassures the printer that the document only contains black and white text, so no cyan is needed. In the fourth panel, the printer still smiles cheerfully while rudely responding "No fuck you, low on Cyan", refusing to print anyway. The meme jokes about the common, frustrating real-world printer behavior where printers refuse to print even black and white documents if any color ink cartridge is low, even when the color is not required for the print job.

Legit my printer

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This is a satirical meme about the extremely high cost of medical care. On the left, a bored, nonchalant female doctor in a white coat sits in an office chair, presenting two options of news: the good news is that the patient will probably survive their health issue, while the other, effectively bad news, is that the patient will wish they never opened their medical bill. On the right, a haggard, heavily aged Wojak meme character asks what the bad news is, implying that the medical bill will be so cripplingly expensive that surviving the health problem feels like a negative outcome due to the resulting debt.

Medical bills suck

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This is a screenshot of a public X (formerly Twitter) post. The user states they are abandoning use of melatonin, a common over-the-counter sleep aid, because they have had dreams about kissing Squidward Tentacles, the grumpy anthropomorphic octopus character from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, for three consecutive nights. The humor comes from the absurd, specific, embarrassing nature of the dream paired with the user's frustrated reaction to the unexpected side effect of the sleep aid.

Fed up with melatonin after dreaming about kissing Squidward three nights in a row

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The meme is split into two sections: top text that reads "Me seeing the download time going from 5 minutes to a week", placed above a close-up cropped shot of animated character Skinner from the Pixar film *Ratatouille* with extremely wide, bulging eyes and a stunned facial expression. It conveys relatable disbelief and frustration at unexpected, massive increases in estimated file download times, a common experience for people dealing with slow internet connections or unstable download servers.

Shocked reaction to download time jumping from 5 minutes to a week

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This meme depicts dental students in a training lab wearing PPE including hair covers, face masks, gloves, and lab coats, working on dental practice mannequins. The overlaid text at the top reads "They better not pass the exam 😭". The humor comes from the relatable, exaggerated frustration of patients who are regularly scolded by dentists for not flossing enough: the joke implies all the years of dental training these students go through is ultimately just to nag people about their flossing habits, so people wish the students fail their exams to avoid future lectures about poor oral hygiene.

All this, just to tell me I don't floss enough...

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This is a 3-panel relatable gaming meme using scenes from Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War. The first panel shows Star-Lord looking pleased, with text stating he finally has time to play his multiplayer game. The second panel cuts to the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy crew waiting expectantly, representing the user's friends waiting for them in the game lobby. The third panel cuts to Thor with a smug smirk, labeled as a 45 GB game update, representing the common frustrating experience of having a mandatory large game download block you from playing right when you have time to join your friends.

Large Unexpected Game Update Delays Plans To Play Multiplayer With Friends

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This is a two-panel reaction meme using a screenshot from a classic WWE wrestling match featuring Shawn Michaels (facing the camera) and Stone Cold Steve Austin (facing away from the camera) in a wrestling ring. In the first panel, Shawn Michaels has a calm, confident expression, with overlaid text reading 'Socially distancing, getting 3 vaccines, and wearing a mask even after the mandate was lifted'. In the second panel, Steve Austin points directly at Shawn Michaels, with overlaid text reading 'Getting covid anyways', while Shawn's expression shifts to shocked, defeated disappointment. The meme humorously conveys the relatable frustration of following all recommended COVID-19 safety precautions only to still contract the virus.

COVID Precautions Still Lead To Infection WWE Meme

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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 features a text caption above a humorous photograph. The caption states that the creator caught a cicada whose loud noises kept them awake at night, and is punishing the insect by forcing it to listen to the notoriously catchy and annoying children's song 'Baby Shark' on a 12-hour loop. The accompanying image shows a real cicada immobilized with pieces of tape, with a pair of standard wired white earbuds placed against either side of its body as if it is being made to listen to the audio playing through them. The joke relies on the absurdity of petty, over-the-top revenge against a common nuisance pest, pairing two widely recognized sources of annoyance (loud night-time cicada calls and the repetitive Baby Shark song) for comedic effect.

Noisy Cicada Gets Punished With 12 Hours Of Baby Shark

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The meme is split into two parts. The top section displays a fake online form interface: it has a label reading "Enter your age", a text input box with the number 17 filled in, and a red error message below that reads "User with this age already exists". The bottom section features a popular reaction image of content creator FlightReacts (Kimani White), who is squinting with a pained, awkward, disbelieving half-laugh expression, reacting to the absurd error message. The joke comes from the ridiculousness of the error, as age is a common attribute and not a unique user identifier, mocking poorly designed website/app forms and implying there are no valid ages left to use, matching the original title sentiment of "no more options i guess".

No More Options I Guess: Age Already Exists Meme

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This is a two-panel relatable humor meme. The top panel shows a rain-soaked, furious Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith standing in heavy rain, confronting the other character with the line "You told me it would stop raining!". The bottom panel shows the character he is speaking to, whose head has been edited to be replaced by the official Apple Weather mobile application icon, responding with the line "I lied". The joke pokes fun at the common real-life annoyance of weather apps frequently providing incorrect precipitation forecasts, failing to accurately predict when rain will end.

It's always the weather app lying about rain forecasts

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