Put It Back, Thief!

Put It Back, Thief!is anexploitablememe template based on a drawing of an arm representing the United Kingdom reaching for Northern Ireland while another arm representing the people of Ireland grabs the United Kingdom arm by the wrist, captioned, "Put it back, thief!" The image was originally designed to protest the United Kingdom's ownership of Northern Ireland and spread throughout the 2010s and 2020s as a meme template, where the sleeves of each arm and the image of Ireland arephotoshoppedto represent new subjects. The template is sometimes used in Balkan memes.