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This is a screenshot of a public X (formerly Twitter) post that uses self-deprecating humor to relate to the common dilemma people, especially those with social anxiety, face when choosing a checkout option at retail stores. The tweet jokes that picking a cashier line guarantees you will have to interact with a person, while picking self-checkout still carries a 20% risk of needing to call an employee for help, forcing you to interact with someone anyway and admit you cannot use the self-checkout machine correctly. The poster's profile features a cartoon slate rock, matching their geology-themed display name and punny handle.

Self Checkout vs Cashier Social Anxiety Dilemma Meme

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The meme features top text that reads 'Me when the store checkout at a billion dollar corporation asks my broke ass to donate money to charity' above a low-resolution, slightly distorted close-up shot of Woody, the cowboy character from the Toy Story franchise. Woody has a blank, deadpan, unimpressed expression, which conveys the relatable frustration of low-income customers being asked to give to charity by extremely wealthy corporations that could easily make far larger charitable donations on their own instead of shifting the burden to their patrons.

Unimpressed Woody reacts to checkout charity requests from big corporations

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This meme depicts a relatable awkward public encounter scenario. The text at the top establishes the scene: a person is peacefully shopping at Walmart minding their own business, when a mother trying to discipline her misbehaving child threatens the child by saying the random stranger (the narrator) will kidnap them if they do not behave. The two-panel image below shows the popular Awkward Monkey Puppet character: the first panel shows the monkey with a neutral side glance, representing the initial moment of hearing the comment, and the second panel shows the monkey with slightly disheveled hair, with the text "... wtf?" next to it, capturing the shocked, confused, and deeply awkward reaction of the stranger who was randomly framed as a villain for no reason.

Accidental Walmart Villain

This meme depicts a relatable…