Go away!🥵

This is a short animated webcomic episode titled “Shade of Memories” (Episode 1), created by Darkbox, KS, and Tomato, originally released in 2020. It’s a very emotional, dark twist on the classic “spoiled rich girl vs. poor people” trope.
Story Summary / Explanation (panel by panel):

Opening: A cute, spoiled-looking little girl with a big pink bow is shown pinching her nose in disgust, thinking “Go away nuisance beggars.”
→ She clearly looks down on poor/homeless people.
Daily life: We see her happily skipping to school with a lollipop, enjoying her privileged, carefree life while completely ignoring or despising anyone poorer than her.
Fantasy/revenge daydream: At home, she angrily imagines poor people begging her family for money while she smugly refuses them.
Discovery: One day walking home, she finds a torn family photo in the trash next to a homeless person’s belongings. She’s shocked — the photo shows the exact same “beggar” family from her daydream, but now with a baby daughter that looks just like her as a toddler.
Realization: She understands that the homeless family in the photo is actually her own biological family. She was apparently taken or adopted by the rich family when she was very small.
Confrontation: She starts bullying and attacking actual poor/beggars on the street (throwing her lollipop, kicking, etc.), as if trying to prove to herself that she’s not her real origin.
Tragic twist: One day she sees an ambulance and a crowd. She excitedly runs toward it thinking something fun is happening.
→ But the victims lying dead and bleeding on the street are her biological parents and siblings — apparently just killed in an accident or hit-and-run.
Final scene: Her adoptive parents are comforting the crying little girl at home. The title appears:
“Shade of Memories”
The tagline of the series is:
“No matter what happens, some memories can never be replaced.”

Core Message / Theme:
The girl has completely forgotten or repressed her real origins. She grew up rich, became arrogant and cruel toward the poor, never knowing that the very people she despised and bullied were her own blood family. By the time she subconsciously starts to realize the truth, it’s already too late — they’re gone forever.
It’s a brutal, tear-jerking story about lost memories, class prejudice, and irreversible tragedy. The cute art style makes the dark ending hit even harder.
This single episode became very famous on social media for making people cry in under two minutes.2.7sFast

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