# Why would X do this — Meme Lab

Use when someone causes a problem and then hypocritically blames an innocent person, group, or force for it.

- What it expresses: The perpetrator poses as a confused victim of their own deliberate action.
- Example: A manager cancels testing, ships a broken release, and asks why quality assurance allowed it; the team uses this format privately.
- When not to use it: An investigator traces a failure to its actual external cause; accurate attribution is not self-exonerating blame.
- Tags: why would they do this, blame shifting, self-caused problem, Eric Andre
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