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
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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
There's a person tired of cauliflower "pizza crust" and smoothies that involve kale.
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.
If you have objections to the suffering of plants for our pleasure, go ahead and protest
Load More Replies...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*
Leo, if you get annoyed, that means that you are doing something not exactly.....let's say harmless.
Load More Replies...Yeah, but PETA are pretty much terrorists, so they're good targets.
Load More Replies...i aint going no where, im waiting for the vegan to come to me, >:)
I don't kill them...I just stun them and release them back into the wild.
(whiny canadian tv toddler voice) But it's fuuuuuun! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Load More Replies...You suppose? That's nice. It's a progress. Thank you for your kindness, Lucy.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...Don't kill vegans, please. Just teach them about human brain evolution thanks to animal proteín
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.
Load More Replies...ok sure *slams into buffers at full speed and kills everyone on train*
Load More Replies...Can it be that Vegan teacher please? I just hate that she tries to force people to do stuff
And what you must do is the common good, Evan; don't you think??
Load More Replies...Sometimes it's hard to restrain myself, but I'll try. But I am going anyway.
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).
Load More Replies...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....
Michael, the truth will set you free!!! Don't be a loser, go to that veg restaurant.
Load More Replies...What, not everyone in the world is related you know?
Load More Replies...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
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
I Give Up
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.
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.
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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