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Finally, a solution for hockey players

This meme consists of a news headline, two side-by-side images, and a sarcastic comment. The top headline states 'Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans'. The left image shows a medical model of a human lower jaw with a new tooth growing in the gum line, while the right image is a close-up of a smiling man missing one of his front teeth. Below the images, a comment from user @InsaneMistress (display name Lioness) reads 'this is great news if hockey players could read'. The joke plays on two common tropes: that hockey players frequently have teeth knocked out during games, making them ideal candidates for the tooth regrowing drug, and the unfair stereotypical joke that hockey players are unintelligent and unable to read, so they would not find out about the drug.
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Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans

Overview

This meme consists of a news headline, two side-by-side images, and a sarcastic comment. The top headline states 'Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans'. The left image shows a medical model of a human lower jaw with a new tooth growing in the gum line, while the right image is a close-up of a smiling man missing one of his front teeth. Below the images, a comment from user @InsaneMistress (display name Lioness) reads 'this is great news if hockey players could read'. The joke plays on two common tropes: that hockey players frequently have teeth knocked out during games, making them ideal candidates for the tooth regrowing drug, and the unfair stereotypical joke that hockey players are unintelligent and unable to read, so they would not find out about the drug.

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This meme was sourced from an RSS feed for 9Gag, with the provided original title 'Finally, a solution for hockey players'. It repurposes a real news update about Japan's experimental tooth regrowth drug trials, combined with the popular 'if [group] could read' sarcastic meme template that is widely shared across social media platforms like Twitter/X and 9Gag.

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