Third World Success Meme Generator

Your flight is cancelled, and the airline puts you in a hotel with a buffet breakfast. You eat four pastries and a small pot of jam you had no use for. By the time they rebook you, you are in a better mood than the trip deserved.

The office wifi dies at 2pm. No one can work, the meeting is off, and the manager says go home. You walk out into daylight, a little guilty and not at all sorry.

Your phone breaks the day before payday, so you can't check your balance. You spend the evening not knowing how much you have not got, and sleep soundly.

The queue at the post office is round the corner. Then the system crashes and everyone is sent away. You leave with the parcel unsent and a free afternoon, which is the best result the building has ever given anyone.

Why it caught on: the picture shows a small, grinning child dancing in the middle of a dirt road, with other children around him, and it was captioned in the "Success Kid" style: a hardship in the first line, a cheerful silver lining in the second. The jokes leaned on a stereotype of African children as living in extreme poverty, hunger and war and being delighted by any small mercy. The setup was easy to copy, and the same bad-news, good-news turn works for any small win.

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