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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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Will There Be Blood Or Not!?

Will There Be Blood Or Not!?

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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."

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Choose Abortion Life Kills

Choose Abortion Life Kills

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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.

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Doesn’t Sound Like Fun

Doesn’t Sound Like Fun

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Don’t Save A Life Be Afraid To Give Blood

Don’t Save A Life Be Afraid To Give Blood

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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.”

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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

Guaranteed Reduced Quality

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#11

7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans

7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans

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#12

Aliectass

Aliectass

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#15

Stand Hong With Kong

Stand Hong With Kong

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#17

If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?

If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?

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Ekate
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I usually go with spilling hot coffee on myself when the lid's not on properly.

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#21

Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!

Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!

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Don't Go Kill Vegan

Don't Go Kill Vegan

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Erik Ivan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sound advice. Killing other humans is frowned upon in most societies.

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Vic
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't subscribe to the concept of veganism, but I wouldn't go that far..

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AnaSan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Jon S.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have objections to the suffering of plants for our pleasure, go ahead and protest

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Leo Domitrix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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*

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Christina Uhlir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Leo, if you get annoyed, that means that you are doing something not exactly.....let's say harmless.

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Thenatural
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't kill them...I just stun them and release them back into the wild.

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Christina Uhlir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't kill vegans, please. Just teach them about human brain evolution thanks to animal proteín

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Christina Uhlir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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Linda Robinett
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, then I could become a humanitarian, just like Lecter Hannible.

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BananaJo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can it be that Vegan teacher please? I just hate that she tries to force people to do stuff

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J. F.
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3 years ago

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Marco Conti
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes it's hard to restrain myself, but I'll try. But I am going anyway.

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Azziza
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As annoying as they can be, I still think that's illegal.

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Christina Uhlir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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....

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Christina Uhlir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Michael, the truth will set you free!!! Don't be a loser, go to that veg restaurant.

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Paradox Skye
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Geez, I know they are annoying, but dont go killing them.."

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Cip IESAN
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Yes, sometimes vegans are pains in the ass, but we should at least warn them before killing 'em. Give 'em a last chance, to swear they will never send us again pics with vegan food.

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#23

Saw This At Work Today And Immediately Thought Of This Sub

Saw This At Work Today And Immediately Thought Of This Sub

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#24

Always Forgotten - Missed Never

Always Forgotten - Missed Never

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#26

Was There Even An Intended Order To Begin With?

Was There Even An Intended Order To Begin With?

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#29

Vote Dump Early Trump

Vote Dump Early Trump

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#30

Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo

Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo

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#31

This Is A F**king Massacre. Thing Made Me Want To Dead

This Is A F**king Massacre. Thing Made Me Want To Dead

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#35

You Think Some Tattooist Hate Their Own Work?

You Think Some Tattooist Hate Their Own Work?

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#36

This Giant Poster In My University Dorm

This Giant Poster In My University Dorm

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#37

Drugs May Kill You, But Never Your They’ll Hurt Feelings

Drugs May Kill You, But Never Your They’ll Hurt Feelings

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#38

Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning

Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning

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#39

Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside

Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside

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#40

My Girlfriends Kitchen Tiles. Forffee Coyou

My Girlfriends Kitchen Tiles. Forffee Coyou

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#45

Call Me Don’t

Call Me Don’t

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