UEFA leaving FIFA domino effect meme
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Overview
This meme uses a viral image of a man setting up a line of dominoes that increase in size from smallest to largest, where the smallest domino will trigger a chain reaction knocking over all the larger dominoes. Text over the largest domino reads 'UEFA leaves FIFA and makes its own World Cup', while text next to the smallest domino reads 'No red card for American player named Ball O' Gun'. The joke implies that this minor, absurd refereeing controversy would be the tiny trigger that cascades into the massive, unprecedented event of UEFA splitting from FIFA to launch a competing World Cup. The original post's title 'Written by Hideo Kojima' adds an extra layer of humor, referencing Kojima's signature writing style where absurd small events spiral into world-changing consequences.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme community, where it was originally posted with the title 'Written by Hideo Kojima'. This title references the well-known trope that video game writer Hideo Kojima creates convoluted narratives where minor, often absurd events lead to enormous, world-altering consequences, matching the meme's premise. The meme uses a widely circulated viral image of a man demonstrating how a tiny domino can knock over a progressively larger series of dominoes, a popular template used for jokes about small causes leading to disproportionately large effects.