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Would you like a rock or a rock?

This is a two-panel dark humor meme. The top panel features a neutral-expression soyjak wojak character next to a clear cut diamond labeled 'ROCK'. The bottom panel shows the same soyjak character looking extremely excited, with its mouth wide open as if yelling in joy and gesturing with a hand, next to an identical diamond labeled 'CHILD LABOR ROCK'. The joke satirizes the unethical sourcing of most commercially sold diamonds, which are often mined using exploitative child labor, by portraying the edgy wojak character as preferring the diamond explicitly acknowledged to be sourced from child labor, making light of the problematic origin of common luxury goods.
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Overview

This is a two-panel dark humor meme. The top panel features a neutral-expression soyjak wojak character next to a clear cut diamond labeled 'ROCK'. The bottom panel shows the same soyjak character looking extremely excited, with its mouth wide open as if yelling in joy and gesturing with a hand, next to an identical diamond labeled 'CHILD LABOR ROCK'. The joke satirizes the unethical sourcing of most commercially sold diamonds, which are often mined using exploitative child labor, by portraying the edgy wojak character as preferring the diamond explicitly acknowledged to be sourced from child labor, making light of the problematic origin of common luxury goods.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed. It uses the popular soyjak wojak template, a widely used internet meme character originating from 4chan, edited with stock diamond images and text overlays to create the satirical joke about unethical diamond mining labor practices.

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