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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This Is Actually Pretty Clever
Jesus Scares
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."
Well That Seems Unfair
Choose Abortion Life Kills
Well if you think about it.... Life does kill at some point....(/s)
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.
Doesn’t Sound Like Fun
Don’t Save A Life Be Afraid To Give Blood
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.'”
Guaranteed Reduced Quality
7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans
Aliectass
Stolen From My Friends Snap Story
I Am Dond
Stand Hong With Kong
Well If You Insist
If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?
Spread Cream Not Cheese Disease
The State Of Washi Wangton
Dip Dip
Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!
Don't Go Kill Vegan
Saw This At Work Today And Immediately Thought Of This Sub
Always Forgotten - Missed Never
Drug Is The Free Key
Was There Even An Intended Order To Begin With?
Truly Inspiring
My Hometown Parade. Dear God
Vote Dump Early Trump
Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo
This Is A F**king Massacre. Thing Made Me Want To Dead
have one share and then a bunch of hearts & nonsense
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This is how I felt once when I was surprised by an unusually strong migraine.
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He love her, she love him, we love us, Shiva (Hindu God for destruction) love you. Have one love share love?
I'm not sure whether I an incompetent or not, but you thank explaining for. :)
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Huh, what am I reading. I have tried a few times to comprehend what I see but I just can’t.
So that's how King Kong beat Godzilla. Thanks for the spoiler bud. NOT.
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He love her, she love him, have one share, we love us, Shiva love you. Is that right?
I mean it seems right, but what is it supposed to mean?
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I think they mean " he, and she have we shiva. BUT they only have one. herhim then shared us with you because us is shiva, but they only had one, they shared anyway.
he she have we shiva one herhim share us you. AH YES OBVIOUSLY NOTHING WRONG HERE
Wtf is this even meant to say, my brain I’d dying just looking at it
Omg I thought this was an identity thing saying whatever pronouns you identify as, we all have hearts 🤣🤣🤣 it’s appaz about being Hindu
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At least it's got rhythm... Wait, isn't this a dance craze from Indonesia?
It sounds like a computer program tried to translate something from another language.
Maybe it’s just me, and there’s probably some sort of backstory I don’t know, but this sounds mildly homophobic to me-
Yes Shiva is a Hindu god. They are trying reference a myth that shirt version Shiva doesn't care if you LGBTQ shiva thinks your awesome for it! Look up overly sarcastic productions on youtube they did a whole vid on it
There'd be something of a pattern here if it didn't say Shiva in the corner
I've tried reading this a bunch of different ways, but I still can't figure out what it's supposed to say. SOMEBODY HELP ME!
Who Thought This Was Acceptable
Enroll Your Russian Child Now
Jesus Are Is Coming You Back Ready?
You Think Some Tattooist Hate Their Own Work?
This Giant Poster In My University Dorm
Drugs May Kill You, But Never Your They’ll Hurt Feelings
Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning
Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside
My Girlfriends Kitchen Tiles. Forffee Coyou
Spicey Vaccine
This Was In My It Class Today
I’m Call Pregnant Me
Call Me Don’t
Note: this post originally had 70 images. It’s been shortened to the top 45 images based on user votes.
So many of these are due to people not understanding that westerners read left to right, not top to bottom
If they know English, they must know how the Westerners right.
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The ones that just kill me are the signs posted at schools BY TEACHERS!
Me too; too much stupidity and, unfortunately, hate as well.
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Who thinks it's a good idea to have two vertical phases right next to each other?
Why is it that when we make signs we completely forget that we read left to right?
Urgh it's too early for such torture!!!! (its midday) My poor brain hurts after all of this!
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 🤣
For the most part, a simple column line separator would Have done the trick
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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... So many of these are due to people not understanding that westerners read left to right, not top to bottom
If they know English, they must know how the Westerners right.
Load More Replies... The ones that just kill me are the signs posted at schools BY TEACHERS!
Me too; too much stupidity and, unfortunately, hate as well.
Load More Replies... Who thinks it's a good idea to have two vertical phases right next to each other?
Why is it that when we make signs we completely forget that we read left to right?
Urgh it's too early for such torture!!!! (its midday) My poor brain hurts after all of this!
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 🤣
For the most part, a simple column line separator would Have done the trick
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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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