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What Are The Chances?

This is a 4-panel meme that uses the popular Drake approve/disapprove meme template. In the top-left panel, Drake rejects the common matching couple shirts that together spell 'SOULMATE' (with one person's shirt reading 'SOUL' and the other reading 'MATE'). In the bottom-left panel, Drake enthusiastically approves of the far more unlikely coincidence shown on the right: two men own matching galaxy-print shirts that each have black sleeves, and when the two men stand next to each other, the full galaxy print of the original shirt design is completed across both people. The bottom-right panel includes a caption explaining that the shirt owner had owned the shirt for a full year and never understood why the sleeves were black, until he met the other person with the matching half of the design. The meme jokes about the incredibly low probability of this random real-life coincidence.
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Had this shirt for a year and always wondered why the sleeves were black until I met this man today.

Overview

This is a 4-panel meme that uses the popular Drake approve/disapprove meme template. In the top-left panel, Drake rejects the common matching couple shirts that together spell 'SOULMATE' (with one person's shirt reading 'SOUL' and the other reading 'MATE'). In the bottom-left panel, Drake enthusiastically approves of the far more unlikely coincidence shown on the right: two men own matching galaxy-print shirts that each have black sleeves, and when the two men stand next to each other, the full galaxy print of the original shirt design is completed across both people. The bottom-right panel includes a caption explaining that the shirt owner had owned the shirt for a full year and never understood why the sleeves were black, until he met the other person with the matching half of the design. The meme jokes about the incredibly low probability of this random real-life coincidence.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, as noted in the provided source metadata, with its original title being 'What are the chances?'. It is a remix that combines the pre-existing Drake Hotline Bling approve/disapprove meme template with a viral real-life photo of the unusual shirt coincidence to create a humorous take on extremely unlikely events.

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