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Collected Item: “Travel Restriction Humour”

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Travel Restriction Humour

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Meme taken from a Twitter Screenshot

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This meme is poking fun at all of the people, myself included, who include their travels as a defining part of their lives. On Instagram, it is usual for people to have airplane emojis and the names of their favorites cities to travel to. With the pandemic restricting all but essential air travel, those influencers/users that use travel emojis have this user worried for their mental health

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#travel, #restrictions, #overseas, #humour

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Twitter user @KevinFarzad created the meme, Joey Dorion took a screenshot

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2020-05-28
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