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Screw Off Youtube, I'm Not Turning Off Ad Block

This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel uses a scene from the animated series *Dan Vs.* where the character Dan is pushing a person out of his apartment door, with a standard YouTube playback error message overlaid on the upper half of the panel, reading 'An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: j94zduZMbpZvG5M-) Learn More', implying the error is triggered by the use of an ad blocker. The bottom panel shows Dan looking visibly angry and frustrated, with bold white capitalized text below him that states 'I'M STILL NOT TURNING OFF AD BLOCK'. The joke expresses widespread user frustration with YouTube's anti-ad-blocker policies, showing that many users would prefer to deal with playback failures instead of disabling their ad blockers to watch content.
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I'M STILL NOT TURNING OFF AD BLOCK

Overview

This is a two-panel reaction meme. The top panel uses a scene from the animated series Dan Vs. where the character Dan is pushing a person out of his apartment door, with a standard YouTube playback error message overlaid on the upper half of the panel, reading 'An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: j94zduZMbpZvG5M-) Learn More', implying the error is triggered by the use of an ad blocker. The bottom panel shows Dan looking visibly angry and frustrated, with bold white capitalized text below him that states 'I'M STILL NOT TURNING OFF AD BLOCK'. The joke expresses widespread user frustration with YouTube's anti-ad-blocker policies, showing that many users would prefer to deal with playback failures instead of disabling their ad blockers to watch content.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, with the original post titled 'Screw off Youtube'. It edits a popular existing reaction template from the animated show Dan Vs. to satirize YouTube's increasingly strict measures that block playback for users running ad blocking software.

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