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Video Games in a nutshell

This is a two-panel comparison meme satirizing the common trend of false advertising for mobile games on app stores. The top panel features the official, polished, smiling Lightning McQueen character from the Disney Pixar *Cars* franchise, paired with text referring to the high-quality, appealing version of a game shown in App Store promotional materials. The bottom panel shows a janky, off-brand bootleg version of Lightning McQueen designed to look like a red rain boot with an awkward forced smile, paired with text referring to the low-quality, disappointing, far-from-advertised state of the game after a user purchases or downloads it.
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The game when advertised on the App Store
The game when you buy it

Overview

This is a two-panel comparison meme satirizing the common trend of false advertising for mobile games on app stores. The top panel features the official, polished, smiling Lightning McQueen character from the Disney Pixar Cars franchise, paired with text referring to the high-quality, appealing version of a game shown in App Store promotional materials. The bottom panel shows a janky, off-brand bootleg version of Lightning McQueen designed to look like a red rain boot with an awkward forced smile, paired with text referring to the low-quality, disappointing, far-from-advertised state of the game after a user purchases or downloads it.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit with the title 'Video Games in a nutshell'. It uses the popular pre-existing Lightning McQueen vs bootleg Lightning McQueen comparison meme format, and was edited using the Mematic mobile meme creation app, as confirmed by the 'made with mematic' watermarks at the bottom of the image.

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