>>8287
>I thought the forbidden love meme came with this madoka image
It's supposedly not just an image, there is a backstory: at that time there weren't any anime streaming sites in the style of "project free tv", instead you had to download tv recordings from Japan made by someone, and apply subs to them. Some people then added hardsubs (which is normal for streaming sites now) and one of those had the mistranslation of the scene where that classmate reacts to Madoka and Sayaka smiling in silence when they are actually using telepathy, with the expression in closer translation: "but that's a love that cannot be!"

Anon translated it as "but that's forbidden love" because it was his fetish speaking.