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Ironic
memes.

A very serious-looking argument has met a very unserious reply. These ironic memes ask you to notice the distance between the wording and the situation.

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Ironic meme gallery

Too good to keep to yourself.

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Behind the punchlines

Ironic memes and the second reading

A caption can sound confident while the image quietly undermines it. That gives the reader two things to interpret at once. The first impression may be the setup, with the joke appearing only after you notice the detail underneath.

The archive includes references to asking higher powers and a shattered argument. Both make room for a response whose scale is much larger than the immediate problem.

Give the context a moment

Read the whole image before sharing. A cropped line can lose the cue that makes the intention clear, leaving something that sounds unexpectedly sincere. The sarcastic caption collection offers another way of saying more than the literal wording. For a less restrained kind of nonsense, browse the dumb joke gallery.

A little context

This collection preserves memes from the original archive. Captions are jokes and opinions, and references may reflect past events. Original watermarks are preserved. New submissions are reviewed before joining the collection.

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