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What comes around, comes around

This is a 2x2 panel comic meme illustrating the idiom 'what comes around, goes around'. Panel 1 (top left): A young man drawn as a childish 'manchild' archetype wearing a propeller beanie and pacifier asks his mother 'Mom, can I have that toy?'. Panel 2 (top right): The young, neutrally expressioned mother replies 'No'. Panel 3 (bottom left): The same man is now shown as an adult wearing a gaming headset, answering 'No.' in the same blunt tone his mother used. Panel 4 (bottom right): The mother is now shown as elderly, wrinkled, and pleading, asking her son 'Son, can I have a grandchild?'. The joke comes from the cyclical refusal, where the son repays his mother's childhood refusal by denying her request for a grandchild when he is an adult.
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Mom, can I have that toy?
No
No.
Son, can I have a grandchild?

Overview

This is a 2x2 panel comic meme illustrating the idiom 'what comes around, goes around'. Panel 1 (top left): A young man drawn as a childish 'manchild' archetype wearing a propeller beanie and pacifier asks his mother 'Mom, can I have that toy?'. Panel 2 (top right): The young, neutrally expressioned mother replies 'No'. Panel 3 (bottom left): The same man is now shown as an adult wearing a gaming headset, answering 'No.' in the same blunt tone his mother used. Panel 4 (bottom right): The mother is now shown as elderly, wrinkled, and pleading, asking her son 'Son, can I have a grandchild?'. The joke comes from the cyclical refusal, where the son repays his mother's childhood refusal by denying her request for a grandchild when he is an adult.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original title 'What comes around, comes around'. It uses the popular minimalist Wojak-style character art common in Western internet memes, and was created using the Imgflip meme generator as indicated by the watermark at the bottom left of the image. The meme plays on relatable generational tension between older parents wanting grandchildren and adult children who choose not to have kids.

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