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POV: You did something awful for chocolate right before the zombie apocalypse ends

This is a single-panel meme featuring text at the top setting an absurd dark humor scenario, paired with a screenshot of a nervous-looking anime girl with glasses clasping her hands awkwardly. The top text reads: 'POV: When the zombie outbreak hits but the military wipes them out within 6 hrs and you've just slimed a family of six for a chocolate bar:'. The humor comes from subverting the common zombie apocalypse media trope where the crisis lasts for months or years, forcing people to make hard survival choices: here the apocalypse ends almost immediately, making the terrible, unethical choice the viewer character just made completely unnecessary, leaving them with severe awkward guilt. The original submission title for this meme is 'Is it too much?', to which the implied punchline answer is a resounding yes, as the extreme action was completely unwarranted.
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POV: When the zombie outbreak hits but the military wipes them out within 6 hrs and you've just slimed a family of six for a chocolate bar:

Overview

This is a single-panel meme featuring text at the top setting an absurd dark humor scenario, paired with a screenshot of a nervous-looking anime girl with glasses clasping her hands awkwardly. The top text reads: 'POV: When the zombie outbreak hits but the military wipes them out within 6 hrs and you've just slimed a family of six for a chocolate bar:'. The humor comes from subverting the common zombie apocalypse media trope where the crisis lasts for months or years, forcing people to make hard survival choices: here the apocalypse ends almost immediately, making the terrible, unethical choice the viewer character just made completely unnecessary, leaving them with severe awkward guilt. The original submission title for this meme is 'Is it too much?', to which the implied punchline answer is a resounding yes, as the extreme action was completely unwarranted.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the Reddit Meme subreddit, per the provided source metadata. It is a remixed meme, adding custom POV text to a screenshot of the character Yomiko Readman from the 2001 OVA anime Read or Die (R.O.D), where the character's guilty, nervous expression perfectly matches the vibe of the scenario described in the text. The format plays on relatable jokes about overreacting to expected long-term crises that end up resolving far faster than anticipated.

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