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The offer arrives in the group chat at 11pm: "special deal, tonight only". Read the small print and it's a terrible deal. The seller is delighted with it anyway and has already sent it to everyone twice.

Someone posts a comment far too spicy for a Tuesday, gets a hundred furious replies, and responds with "that wasn't me, someone's using my account". The comment history disagrees. So does the screenshot your cousin took.

At dinner a mate tells a joke that goes one line too far. Forks stop. He looks round for backup, finds none, and says "tough crowd" to a room that has become furniture.

A forum argument is eleven hours old, nobody has changed their mind, and both sides are now just trying to leave with the last word. Every reply opens with a different mock-wise greeting, as if the thread were a council of elders.

Why it caught on: the picture is a bearded man in a white turban over a yellow and brown sunburst, the colour-burst look of the early advice-animal templates, and meme generator sites filled up with captions on it. Most leaned on the lazy stereotype of the Muslim man as a terrorist, with crude jokes about bombs, pork and virgins, and later ones swapped in the Turkish president's name as the punchline. It spread because the format made a deliberately provocative one-liner effortless, and shock was the whole appeal.

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