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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-kebab-guy

A meme we deadpooled (for good reasons), but looking at it the entry managed to get nearly 40k views in a week despite this. And Googling for it a bit, it appears to have been a thing that spread on 9gag.

Anyone know more about this to a point that we could potentially fix the entry?

From what I've could gather he's Zargani, a kebab owner from Sidney who posted on 9gag (dated on Sept. 11th) saying that he would give free kebabs to all the 9gag users who went to his restaurant.

Of course, this quickly backfired and he got flooded with visitors who would eat for free, making him lose a lot of money and sparking several jokes about it. There's also something about an Asian guy going five times a day to the restaurant to get free food, with 9gaggers making him his archnemesis.

Sounds like something we could fix into an Event entry fo sho based on that. Quick Google searches on my side let to various images about it.

Apparently it also got controversional when some of the 9gag folks took a bit too much advantage of his free kebabs (especially with the 5 times a day asian guy), believing his kindness shouldn't be exploited so much. I mean look at this image's points.