It may have a market valuation of more than $80 billion, but there’s an unusually eerie sense of quiet around the arrival of US payments giant Block (formerly known as Square) on the ASX following its merger with Afterpay.

In fact, one of the few sounds investors might have been able to hear is giggling; a very amusing meme video doing the rounds of Twitter brutally lampoons the deal, the huge fall in Block’s share price since it was announced last August, and even (how could they?!) The Australian Financial Review’s positive commentary on the deal.