Eight Hours Transferring Wealth

Text on the meme

how it GENUINELY feels to spend 8 hours a day transferring wealth from your boss to your landlord

What it means

A surreal, low-resolution video shows a lone dark figure moving through a warped landscape of money beneath a giant clock, which gradually becomes a grotesque tree-like structure. The caption jokes that working an eight-hour day feels like endlessly passing one’s paycheck from an employer to a landlord, while the ominous visuals and the dark atmospheric track “Drown” by bwruisemyskin make ordinary rent-paying feel nightmarish and existential.

Sound

♪ bwruisemyskin — Drown

music / музыка

Objects

giant clock / большие часы Roman numerals / римские цифры clock hands / стрелки часов dark human silhouette / тёмный силуэт человека walking figure / идущая фигура money / деньги banknotes / банкноты distorted landscape / искажённый пейзаж tree-like structure / древовидная структура tree trunk / ствол дерева red smoky sky / красное дымное небо rocky ground / каменистая земля blurred motion effect / эффект размытого движения surreal scenery / сюрреалистический пейзаж