Bangladeshi Cake Cutting

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About

Bangladeshi Cake Cutting refers to an image of several Bangladeshi officials holding a knife above a cake for a group photo, with one man failing to put his hand together with the others. Starting in January 2019, the image has been circulated as an exploitable.

Origin

On January 11th, 2019, Bangladeshi financial service provider "Nagad" held a celebration party for the Bangladeshi state official Zunaid Ahmed Palak being reelected as the State Minister for ICT Division.^[1] During the event, Zunaid Ahmed Palak and several other guests posed for a group photo by holding a knife in preparation to cut a cake, with one man failing to put his hand with the others.

Spread

On the same day, Redditor wildluciddreaming posed a three-panel image based on the photograph to /r/funny subreddit, gaining over 80 upvotes in six months.^[2] Additionally, the image has also received spread among Bangladeshi and Indian Internet users.

On January 13th, 2019, Redditor missmewgayshit poste the first known English-language meme based on the image to /r/PewdiepieSubmissions subreddit,^[3] where it gained over 42,500 upvotes (shown below).

In the following days, the image received significant spread on Reddit, with notable examples posted in /r/freefolk,^[4] /r/historymeme,^[5] /r/dankmemes^[6] and other subreddits.