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The ‘Fast & Furious’ Family Meme Is Officially Dead After The Labor Party Attempted It

"This made me conservative."

by Michelle Rennex  8 July 2021
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I regret to inform you that the Australian Labor Party is trying to appeal to the youth with Vin Diesel and memes.

With the release of F9 — yet another installment of the Fast and Furious franchise — a number of memes have hit the internet. But while buzz around the ninth Fast film has spurred new jokes, most people are busy remembering Dominic Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) famous line from Furious 7: “I don’t have friends. I got family.”

The “I Got Family” meme is pretty simple. You slap the ever-helpful Dom into other movie universes or tv shows to help out because family is the most important thing — even when it logically makes zero sense. That’s it, really.

This is because if the Fast and Furious — and the leader of the family, Dom — have taught us anything over the last nine Fast installments, it’s that the moral of the story, each and every time, is family.

Well, now that you have an understanding of how the “I Got Family” meme works, let me ruin your day with Labor’s take on the trend.

Choosing to not even really do the Fast and Furious meme correctly, the official Australian Labor Instagram page uploaded a photo of Labor staff with a photoshopped insert of Dominic Toretto with the caption: “I ain’t got Labor friends, I got Labor family.”

And I’m not joking, please feast your eyes:

Exuding a real “How Do You Do Fellow Kids?” energy, the meme was expectedly roasted online as people questioned what the hell Labor were trying to do.

“Thanks for killing the meme, boomer pollys,” one comment read. “My God, it’s real. You guys are out of touch… this is some top-tier boomer cringe.”

“I was enjoying this meme and now you’ve ruined it. Thanks.”

Really, the irony of using a meme that implied that workers in the Labor party are a “family” was not lost on people as most toxic workplaces often do refer to staff as family. In fact, it’s pretty much an unspoken rule that a company telling you that their office operates “like family” is one of the biggest red flags that indicate a bad workplace.

And to make this whole thing that much funnier, official responses to the rare positive comments asking for those responsible for the meme to get paid more just self-dunked on the Labor party even more.

“Pay raise for the media team now,” one person commented. “Don’t need a payrise when you got family,” the page responded, highlighting Labor values to a tee.

But don’t feel bad for the social media person who whipped this meme up and is now getting dragged to hell and back. The person responsible for this cursed meme is probably earning about $120,000 a year to pump out this horror, so I reckon they’ll survive a light roasting just fine.

After all, if you look at this in the same way the official Australian Labor Instagram page has, who needs positive comments when you got family?