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This is a sports meme using a scene from the 2021 Pixar animated film *Luca*. A mustached male character labeled 'Belgium' kneels on a stone ledge, shrugging nonchalantly as he lets a younger child character labeled 'USA' fall off the ledge. A female character standing behind him, labeled 'FIFA', looks on with a shocked expression. The joke references the 2022 FIFA World Cup match where the Belgium men's national soccer team defeated the United States team, eliminating the US from the tournament, with the title 'Thanks Belgium' sarcastically referencing Belgium's role in the US's exit from the competition.
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Overview

This is a sports meme using a scene from the 2021 Pixar animated film Luca. A mustached male character labeled 'Belgium' kneels on a stone ledge, shrugging nonchalantly as he lets a younger child character labeled 'USA' fall off the ledge. A female character standing behind him, labeled 'FIFA', looks on with a shocked expression. The joke references the 2022 FIFA World Cup match where the Belgium men's national soccer team defeated the United States team, eliminating the US from the tournament, with the title 'Thanks Belgium' sarcastically referencing Belgium's role in the US's exit from the competition.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, with the original posted title 'Thanks Belgium'. It is a derivative work editing a popular reaction scene from the Pixar film Luca, created to joke about the results of the 2022 FIFA World Cup knockout stage match between Belgium and the United States.

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