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What a great time to cancel my subscription

This meme reacts to YouTube's official announcement of a YouTube Premium subscription price hike. The top half shows an official email notification to a user informing them that the individual plan price is increasing to $15.99 per month, followed by the frustrated common user question "Youtube, why are you raising your Premium prices again?". The bottom half uses the famous SpongeBob SquarePants meme of an interview asking Mr. Krabs, who bluntly replies "Hello, I like money". The meme satirizes that YouTube's price increase is purely motivated by corporate greed for more profit, perfectly matching the widespread user sentiment of wanting to cancel subscriptions after the price hike.
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YouTube Premium Individual plan price update
Hi Nico Clark,
Thank you for being a YouTube Premium member. We hope you are enjoying your YouTube Premium benefits, including ad-free and downloadable videos background play, and uninterrupted access to over 100 million songs with the YouTube Music app.
To continue delivering great service and features, we're increasing your price to $15.99/month. We don't make these decisions lightly, but this update will allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.
"Youtube, why are you raising your Premium prices again?"
Hello, I like money

Overview

This meme reacts to YouTube's official announcement of a YouTube Premium subscription price hike. The top half shows an official email notification to a user informing them that the individual plan price is increasing to $15.99 per month, followed by the frustrated common user question "Youtube, why are you raising your Premium prices again?". The bottom half uses the famous SpongeBob SquarePants meme of an interview asking Mr. Krabs, who bluntly replies "Hello, I like money". The meme satirizes that YouTube's price increase is purely motivated by corporate greed for more profit, perfectly matching the widespread user sentiment of wanting to cancel subscriptions after the price hike.

Origin notes

This is a Reddit meme originally posted with the title "What a great time to cancel my subscription", created in response to YouTube's official price increase for YouTube Premium that occurred in the 2020s. It is a remix that repurposes the popular existing "Hello I like money" Mr. Krabs interview meme from SpongeBob SquarePants to comment on the price hike.

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