Fat Guy Drinking Water Meme Template
This is the “Greedy Pipe Man” / “Injustice” cartoon, attributed to BAYSAL and uploaded to Flickr in 2010; the exact template is a later relabelable version. Its core joke is the distribution: one source flows through the pipe, the seated figure captures most of it, and the smaller figure receives only drops. The attached examples map this onto upvotes versus meme posts, one fandom dominating attention over another, microwave heat versus a bowl and its food, and Roblox server attention. It can critique unfairness, but it also works as absurd everyday or fandom labeling; it is not limited to politics or corporate wealth.
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What the Fat Guy Drinking Water meme means
This is the “Greedy Pipe Man” / “Injustice” cartoon, attributed to BAYSAL and uploaded to Flickr in 2010; the exact template is a later relabelable version. Its core joke is the distribution: one source flows through the pipe, the seated figure captures most of it, and the smaller figure receives only drops. The attached examples map this onto upvotes versus meme posts, one fandom dominating attention over another, microwave heat versus a bowl and its food, and Roblox server attention. It can critique unfairness, but it also works as absurd everyday or fandom labeling; it is not limited to politics or corporate wealth.
A sepia cartoon shows a pipe carrying liquid into the mouth of a large seated man; only drips fall to a small person beneath the pipe. The active layout has three editable label boxes positioned over the pipe/source, the seated man, and the smaller recipient.
How the joke works
Use three object-label slots: slot 1 names the source/resource flowing through the pipe; slot 2 labels the seated figure or group soaking up most of it; slot 3 labels the smaller figure or group left with drips. Keep all three labels in the same ecosystem so the visual distribution makes sense. The joke can be serious, petty, fandom-specific, gaming-related, or silly (like heat reaching the bowl but not the food). Do not reduce it to a two-line top/bottom comparison.
- Pipe/source label: identify the resource, attention, supply, or flow being distributed.
- Seated drinker label: identify the person, group, game, or thing taking most of that flow.
- Small recipient label: identify who or what is left with only the drips or scraps.
Caption examples
- upvotes
- upvote beggars
- decent memes
The pipe is attention, the seated figure is hoarding it, and the small figure is the good content left with scraps.
- Murder Drones
- memes
- Digital Circus
This reverses the source and recipient roles, so the pipe no longer maps to the distribution shown.
Situations it fits
- upvotes or attention going to one kind of post while better memes get ignored
- one fandom or game dominating the feed while another gets scraps
- a resource reaching the container but not the thing it is meant to serve
- server capacity or game updates favoring one mode while other games lag
- an exaggerated but recognizable unfair split of attention, loot, heat, or access
When this format does not fit
- Do not collapse the three object labels into two top/bottom caption bands.
- Keep the labels in order: source/flow, main recipient, under-served recipient.
- Do not use unrelated labels that cannot share the same flow or resource.
- Do not force corporate greed or economic politics; the examples also use fandom, upvotes, food, and games.
- Do not claim this exact cartoon has an unknown anonymous origin; the cited source attributes the original to BAYSAL.
