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The comment section under a post about anything at all. Three replies in, someone is offering a "guaranteed 400% return" from a wallet they found, and the original point has long since drowned.

You are 0.1 MB from the end of the download. The progress bar sits at 99%. The wifi drops with the quiet confidence of something that has done this before, and you stare at the little icon with the cross through it.

Someone writes a furious paragraph correcting a stranger's grammar, and in the middle of it types "your wrong". They hit send. They feel good. Everyone else watches this happen in silence.

You are behind a car that brakes at the junction, turns right and never once signals, as if the rest of the road is expected to guess. Then you pull up and see the stalk is not broken, just unloved.

Why it caught on: the picture is Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, in a scene from *Star Trek: The Next Generation*, slumped in his command chair with his hand over his face. Fans began using it on forums in the late 2000s as a plain reaction to something stupid, and it spread because it needs no words: everyone knows the feeling of having seen a thing they can't unsee.

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