The rage-comic character who reads a newspaper, hears something implausible and sprays his breakfast across the panel. Emerged on 4chan around 2008 and did the work of 'you cannot be serious' until roughly 2014. The record's entry for the milk that never landed.
Obituary, honest version: Cereal Guy did not die of neglect. It died of attention — replaced by newer terms — which is the way most of these go and the way this one went.
The cause of death is listed as "Replaced by newer terms". I would argue for "explained by a newspaper" — the two are usually the same event.
The record notes Cereal Guy's two panels — calm reading, then the spit-take — were the internet's first reusable expression of disbelief, and that the cereal was never identified.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
