The Rise of a Modern Folk Hero

The image shows a screenshot of a social media post with a photo of masked protesters in Washington Square Park, overlaid with the text 'A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition takes place at Washington Square Park'. Below it is a meme image from the movie 'Spartacus' showing a man standing before a crowd of slaves, with the text '-I'm Spartacus! -I'm Spartacus!' at the bottom. The joke is that the protesters are so desperate to be seen as the 'real' United Healthcare CEO shooter that they are all claiming to be Spartacus, implying they are all equally desperate to be the one who did it.

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