Early Life

A four panel meme showing a monkey saying 'Evolution can you give me a pattern-seeking brain to avoid predators?'. A strain of DNA then asks 'To avoid predators?'. Upon receiving an affirmative answer, the monkey then sees Patrick Bateman from American Psycho pointing at the Early Life tab on a wikipedia page.

A meme used by antisemitic groups and individuals to call attention to the Jewish ethnicity of prominent individuals by pushing users to look at the ‘Early Life’ section of their Wikipedia page in the hopes of finding that the individual grew up in a Jewish family. It is most often used to spread antisemitic notions that Jews form a global world elite that is responsible for all of the world’s problems, and is used in similar ways to the triple parentheses symbol. However, it is also a popular meme in Jewish Internet culture, and not all of its uses are hateful.

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