Skeptical third-world kid Meme Generator
Your manager explains there's no budget for a raise this year. Then the email arrives about the new branded hoodies and the team away day with a climbing wall. You read it twice and say nothing, which is the only polite option.
A shop advertises "free delivery". The basket then politely asks for a minimum spend, a membership and your firstborn. Free is clearly a different word where they come from.
Someone at the table says the new phone is "basically the same as the old one" and costs three times as much. Someone else says they're not sure they're allowed to feel their battery life is a personal failing. You fold your arms and keep listening.
Your flatmate swears the washing-up was done. You are looking at a pan with last Tuesday's pasta in it, which is dried to the metal like fossil evidence. You let the silence do the work.
Why it caught on: the photo shows a small boy in a striped shirt with his arms folded, giving a doubtful sideways look at a woman crouched beside him, and people began captioning it "So you're telling me..." in the early 2010s. The first wave leaned on a stereotype: a child in a poor country, unconvinced by the comforts and complaints of rich ones. It lasted because the face fits any claim that sounds too good, too silly or too convenient to be true.
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Best Skeptical third-world kid posts
- So you don't have money to give us a raise / but you can buy 2 bmw m4's
- youre telling me that / in your country theres no need to fight with lions for food
- FREE HOUSING / LIKE WHAT'S THE F***ING CATCH?
- So you're telling me / You get food stamps and welfare money and we get nothing?
- SO WHERE YOU COME FROM / PEOPLE ARE UPSET THAT ITS RAINING
- SO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME / KEKEY IS 40?
- So you are telling me... / that you didnt just fart?
- so You want me to study... / with prof. dr. papermouth??!!!
- so you have skyscrapers, cars, TV, and pocket-sized supercomputers in your hometown / and come to this shithole as a vacation?
- So, you're telling me that / economy’s flow of goods and services from producers to consumers in a way that effectively matches supply and demand and accomplishes the objectives of society.
- SO YOU EAT ANIMALS / THAT ARE fed with THE FOOD WE COULD EAT?
- So you're telling me / That americans think its hot to get whipped?
- So you're saying that / People in your country eat just to express their political views?
- so you're telling me that you / pay to see people play with lions and tigers?
- SO YOUR TELLING ME, / YOUR NOT MARRIED
- So your telling me / You don't want tO cash this 5 Million dollar check for me?
- So you're telling me / 99cent stores don't sell gas?
- so you're telling me, that you bring bibles / but no food?
- so your telling me that in ur country / u have so much free time and water that u shoot at each other with water "guns"?
- you must think I'm stupid / Romney has one wife??