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There are some phrases that just don’t make sense. They get printed on shirts, billboards, and street signs, and if you encounter one, you’ll know it. Looking thrice and turning your head upside down won’t help. Asking for a friend’s help in deciphering the message won’t do much either.
You may call these phrases cursed and you wouldn’t be wrong. But there is an online group that’s not only entirely dedicated to these nonsensical phrases, but has also defined them as a phenomenon worthy of our attention on its own. Powered by 603k members, the Don't Dead Open Inside subreddit is a place for “signs and media that read as nonsense if read normally: from left to right.”
It may sound tricky, but bear with me. Below are some of the funniest signs that require 0% common sense and to throw everything you know about sentence structure out the window. Who knew that there could be so much sense in such nonsense?!
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#1
This Is Actually Pretty Clever
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Will There Be Blood Or Not!?
Just like most things on the internet, the subreddit Don't Dead Open Inside wasn’t created out of nowhere. The trope first came to internet users' attention when its name was used in a promotional poster for the TV series The Walking Dead. To this day, the Don't Dead Open Inside poster, revealed on July 2nd, 2010, stands as one of the most recognized examples of the trope in popular culture that caused the cult following on Reddit.
According to Know Your Meme, the infamous poster featured a photograph of a double door with the words "Don't Open" written on the left side and "Dead Inside" written on the right, which should be interpreted "Don't open, dead inside" if read in the correct order. The whole fun of the trope is revealed when the reader reads the phrase line by line instead, which sounds like "Don't dead open inside."
#4
Well That Seems Unfair
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Choose Abortion Life Kills
Couldnt_Find_A_Good_Name 4 years ago
Well if you think about it.... Life does kill at some point....(/s)
#6
5 Extremely Slow Children Playing
Knowing the speed things surf around social media, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a couple of users on Twitter shared their reactions to the unusual poster on social media. In the following years, “the memes based on the joke were made, with Know Your Meme user irish_swede archiving one such example on March 12, 2013,” reported Know Your Meme.
On May 17th, 2014, the subreddit r/dontdeadopeninside was created, where the community collected cases of the trope found in popular culture, design, advertising, etc. Today, it’s home to 603k members that follow a strict set of rules for submissions.
#7
Doesn’t Sound Like Fun
#8
Don’t Save A Life Be Afraid To Give Blood
#9
Shosple Colupis
The first and most important rule is that all posts have to comply to DDOI format. “Signs must be read correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right, like any text, usually. Though it does not matter how easily you can read them, it is highly encouraged to only post images with little separation or spacing between the columns of words.”
The community doesn’t allow both reposts and memes, and encourages users to “put the 'correctly read' way in the title, like 'DONT DEAD OPEN INSIDE.'”
#10
Guaranteed Reduced Quality
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#12
Aliectass
#13
Stolen From My Friends Snap Story
#14
I Am Dond
#15
Stand Hong With Kong
#16
Well If You Insist
#17
If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?
#18
Spread Cream Not Cheese Disease
#19
The State Of Washi Wangton
#21
Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!
#22
Don't Go Kill Vegan
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
There's a person tired of cauliflower "pizza crust" and smoothies that involve kale.
AnaSan 4 years ago
Why can they protest what do we eat? It's like I would protest because they are eating plants and forced them to eat meat.
Jon S. 4 years ago
If you have objections to the suffering of plants for our pleasure, go ahead and protest
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Well, I don't normally plan to kill vegans, but they can annoy me when they ask how I can eat honey and persecute bees... Hmm. *thoughtful face emoji*
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Leo, if you get annoyed, that means that you are doing something not exactly.....let's say harmless.
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Yeah, but PETA are pretty much terrorists, so they're good targets.
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a very smol kitteh 4 years ago
i aint going no where, im waiting for the vegan to come to me, >:)
Thenatural 4 years ago
I don't kill them...I just stun them and release them back into the wild.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
(whiny canadian tv toddler voice) But it's fuuuuuun! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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Christina Uhlir 4 years ago (edited)
You suppose? That's nice. It's a progress. Thank you for your kindness, Lucy.
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Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Because you don't want to leave here on the earth only "people" who do plunder and destroy it, and all the life it supports, even your own life, Bettye McKee, the smart and kind.
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Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
Don't kill vegans, please. Just teach them about human brain evolution thanks to animal proteín
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Monica Elisabeth Sacco, thank you for your kindness for not killing vegans. The animal protein is doing number on your brain and your body and our planet as we speak. Why do you think we have health crisis, opioid crisis - because people are healthy and not in chronic pain???? And why do you think is enabling the emergence of all those deadly, ever more potent viruses???? Because people are eating so much vegetables?????? Please do NOT teach anything about evolution of human brain, and please do visit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Thank you.
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
ok sure *slams into buffers at full speed and kills everyone on train*
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BananaJo 4 years ago
Can it be that Vegan teacher please? I just hate that she tries to force people to do stuff
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
And what you must do is the common good, Evan; don't you think??
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
Sometimes it's hard to restrain myself, but I'll try. But I am going anyway.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Thank you Azzizza. "No one is more hated than the one who says the truth." - Plato (427 - 347 BC/BCE) Greek philosopher (sadly, still true).
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Michael Capriola Jr. 4 years ago
Ah, shucks! I was all loaded up and ready to head downtown to that new vegan restaurant. Too many people taking the fun of life. Killjoys. Hey, lets go kill the joys instead....
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Michael, the truth will set you free!!! Don't be a loser, go to that veg restaurant.
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Dani_has_arrived <3 4 years ago
What, not everyone in the world is related you know?
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#23
Saw This At Work Today And Immediately Thought Of This Sub
#24
Always Forgotten - Missed Never
#25
Drug Is The Free Key
#26
Was There Even An Intended Order To Begin With?
#27
Truly Inspiring
#28
My Hometown Parade. Dear God
#29
Vote Dump Early Trump
#30
Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo
#31
This Is A F**king Massacre. Thing Made Me Want To Dead
#32
Who Thought This Was Acceptable
#33
Enroll Your Russian Child Now
#34
Jesus Are Is Coming You Back Ready?
#35
You Think Some Tattooist Hate Their Own Work?
#36
This Giant Poster In My University Dorm
#37
Drugs May Kill You, But Never Your They’ll Hurt Feelings
#38
Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning
#39
Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside
#40
My Girlfriends Kitchen Tiles. Forffee Coyou
#41
Spicey Vaccine
#42
This Was In My It Class Today
#43
I’m Call Pregnant Me
#45
Call Me Don’t
#46
Our To Help Trollies You Move
#47
Honey, I Think We're Supposed To Turn Right
#48
Please Mask Wear
#49
Don't Animal Open Inside
#50
Their Heart Is In The Right Place. The Words, Not So Much
#51
"Sorry, We Don't Over $20 Bills Accept"
#52
Why Did I Name My Show "The Joel With Mchale Joel Show Mchale"?
#53
Some Marry Chicks Chicks
#55
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#56
Meat Is Go, Murder Vegan
#57
“What Does Learning A Foreign Language Say About You”, Supposedly
#59
Carop Washen
#60
Stay Save Home Lives
#61
Lets Fight, Keep Us Corona, Safe Virus
#62
Men Because Women
Hello it Smee 4 years ago
Hope this isn't a bathroom sign, someone will pee themselves before figuring out with way to go.
#63
To Plastic No Say Straw
#64
Keep Minimum Please The Distance
#65
Buddy Found This At Our Uni
#67
Our We Use Chickens Good Oil Eat
#68
Santa Please No!
#69
Rip My Last Brain Cell
#70
I'm Sick Of This
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Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
So many of these are due to people not understanding that westerners read left to right, not top to bottom
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
If they know English, they must know how the Westerners right.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
The ones that just kill me are the signs posted at schools BY TEACHERS!
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Me too; too much stupidity and, unfortunately, hate as well.
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Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
Who thinks it's a good idea to have two vertical phases right next to each other?
Sterrinatu 4 years ago
Why is it that when we make signs we completely forget that we read left to right?
Doggo Froggo 4 years ago
Urgh it's too early for such torture!!!! (its midday) My poor brain hurts after all of this!
Marvin HeartofGold 4 years ago
It's 4am and I can't sleep so why not read some sign fails? Except my kid crawled into bed with me because he had nightmares and finally settled into sleep again so I had to stop after reading each one of these to try and catch my breath after stifling my laughter. OMG IM DYING 🤣
Veronica Popescu 4 years ago
For the most part, a simple column line separator would Have done the trick
Aleksei 4 years ago
No, but you are the only one who added an extra S and somehow is able to type with an accent somehow.
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
So many of these are due to people not understanding that westerners read left to right, not top to bottom
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
If they know English, they must know how the Westerners right.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
The ones that just kill me are the signs posted at schools BY TEACHERS!
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Me too; too much stupidity and, unfortunately, hate as well.
Load More Replies... Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
Who thinks it's a good idea to have two vertical phases right next to each other?
Sterrinatu 4 years ago
Why is it that when we make signs we completely forget that we read left to right?
Doggo Froggo 4 years ago
Urgh it's too early for such torture!!!! (its midday) My poor brain hurts after all of this!
Marvin HeartofGold 4 years ago
It's 4am and I can't sleep so why not read some sign fails? Except my kid crawled into bed with me because he had nightmares and finally settled into sleep again so I had to stop after reading each one of these to try and catch my breath after stifling my laughter. OMG IM DYING 🤣
Veronica Popescu 4 years ago
For the most part, a simple column line separator would Have done the trick
Aleksei 4 years ago
No, but you are the only one who added an extra S and somehow is able to type with an accent somehow.
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