Always Trust Strangers Offering Rides

>be me, a white guy with no street smarts >decide to take a shortcut through the hood >get lost and end up in an alleyway >suddenly hear a group of guys approaching >oh no, am I about to get jumped? >"Yo who this white boy?" >me: "Uh, hi. I'm lost and trying to find my way out." >they start laughing like crazy >"You lost huh? Well we can help you out." >me: "Really? That would be great!" >"Yeah we'll give you a ride. Hop in the back." >get in the car they seem to be taking me deeper into the hood >panic.exe they drop me off near my destination >lesson learned: always trust strangers offering rides >especially if they're black

A South Park-style image accompanies a /b/-style greentext story about a clueless white man who gets lost in a dangerous neighborhood and accepts a ride from strangers. The punchline is that his fearful expectations are reversed: the strangers safely help him, so he ironically concludes that he should trust strangers—especially Black strangers—making the joke rely on racial stereotypes and absurdly bad reasoning. It is used as an edgy reaction meme about naïveté, racism, or learning the wrong lesson from a situation.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 6813 2023-02-25