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A two-panel meme featuring an image of actor Willem Dafoe portraying a noble samurai reacting intensely to news from the new Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna. The top text reads: 'POV: it's 1652 and you are the new Shogun Tokugawa letsuna telling noble samurais that f*cking teens is now illegal'. The first panel shows the samurai looking shocked with the subtitle 'You can't do this to me', and the second panel shows him angrier with 'You know how much I sacrificed?!'
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Noble Samurai
You can't do this to me
Noble Samurai
You know how much I sacrificed?!

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POV: it's 1652 and you are the new Shogun Tokugawa letsuna telling noble samurais that f*cking teens is now illegal

Overview

A two-panel meme featuring an image of actor Willem Dafoe portraying a noble samurai reacting intensely to news from the new Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna. The top text reads: 'POV: it's 1652 and you are the new Shogun Tokugawa letsuna telling noble samurais that f*cking teens is now illegal'. The first panel shows the samurai looking shocked with the subtitle 'You can't do this to me', and the second panel shows him angrier with 'You know how much I sacrificed?!'

Origin notes

The meme originates from Reddit, using a screenshot of actor Willem Dafoe (likely from a film or interview) edited with humorous, fictional historical context. It remixes his expressive facial reactions with a satirical scenario about 17th-century Japanese law.

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