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This is a sarcastic meme that humorously blames the ancient evolutionary event of fish walking onto land for all modern adult struggles of working and paying rent. The image combines a paleoart illustration of an ancient walking early tetrapod (the first fish to move onto land) emerging from shallow water onto a beach, with multiple edited human hands pointing at the fish to emphasize the blame. The top text jokes that because this fish left water, modern humans now have to go to work and pay rent, playing on the idea that this evolutionary step led to human existence and all of its associated adult stress.
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this asshole fish decided to walk out of the water one day and now I have to go to work and pay rent

Overview

This is a sarcastic meme that humorously blames the ancient evolutionary event of fish walking onto land for all modern adult struggles of working and paying rent. The image combines a paleoart illustration of an ancient walking early tetrapod (the first fish to move onto land) emerging from shallow water onto a beach, with multiple edited human hands pointing at the fish to emphasize the blame. The top text jokes that because this fish left water, modern humans now have to go to work and pay rent, playing on the idea that this evolutionary step led to human existence and all of its associated adult stress.

Origin notes

This meme originates from a Reddit meme post, with the original post title being 'when did this happen' as stated. The image is an edited creation that combines pre-existing paleoart of an ancient walking fish with added pointing human hands to create the joke, and it circulates online as a relatable meme about the stress of modern adult working life.

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