Ironic Meme Generator
The lift to the gym is out of order, so you take seven flights of stairs, arrive red-faced and out of breath, and are too tired to go to the gym.
The time-management workshop overran by fifty minutes. Nobody had time to ask a question about it. The feedback form is due Friday.
Your phone sends you its weekly screen time report: up 18%. You spend twenty minutes reading it carefully, with concern, on your phone, in bed.
The plumber's own kitchen tap has been dripping since 2019. His wife has mentioned it. He's been very busy fixing everyone else's.
Why it caught on: it's Palpatine in his box at the Galaxies Opera House in Revenge of the Sith (2005), telling Anakin how Darth Plagueis could keep others from dying but was killed in his sleep by his own apprentice. "Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself." The single smug word became a reaction of its own on r/PrequelMemes, for any irony at all.