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Context is a crutch. Most of the time, knowing the backstory, the source, the original post, and the thread that preceded it adds something to a meme. But on the rare occasion, context would actively ruin it. In the space between what you are looking at and any reasonable explanation for its existence, the joke comes alive.

The @isitworthitmemes page has built an audience on exactly this premise: memes so completely unmoored from any traceable origin that adding an explanation would be the comedic equivalent of describing a punchline before delivering it. You won't find a "this started because someone posted a photo of their uncle's garage in 2019" preface. Leave your context at the door, please; we are about to get random and rowdy.

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NapQueen
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2 hours ago

Me too, little mate, me too.

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    Bonesko
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    10 hours ago

    Hope they play "Fur Elise"

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    Ethics Is Holding Back Scientific Innovation And Progress

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    Angela B
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    8 hours ago

    Walk to work.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    Wow!" THAT'S a big coat!

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    JL
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    3 hours ago

    "Careful, Hank. It's a mess in there."

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    NapQueen
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    2 hours ago

    I mean, I know there's less of me to love being short, but at least I can lie down flat in the bath!

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    Kewell Düüd
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    2 hours ago

    "We'll take about that later, human!"

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    6 hours ago

    So much light pollution but also, cute puma/cougar/mountain lion.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    The gremlin who steals socks & hides them leaving you wondering where the hell they are.

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    6 hours ago

    Never ignore Pablo, never!

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    Doug Moyer
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    3 hours ago

    Brewer, when sitting in my lap at the bar, will do this to strangers. He likes to remind people that he is there and is, in fact, not being scratched.

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    6 hours ago

    Cook me like a tuna lol

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    Bonesko
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    10 hours ago

    He's blue because the orange cat stole his tuna

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    Rain Has Fallen

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    Cerulean
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    5 hours ago

    Sneasel

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    Demetrios Churchill
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    1 hour ago

    run dog do not just stand there run!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    For no real discernible reason, I used to do this to try to catch birds. I've never had anything against birds. My parents were concerned that I was on my way to becoming a serial killer.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    Actually it's a red-carpet walk.

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    NapQueen
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    2 hours ago

    George is a great name for a dog.

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    Auntriarch
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    56 minutes ago

    Talk to the paw

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    Bill Swallow
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    2 hours ago

    I'll go with the Dinner. Gerbert looks like a great conversationalist with many fascinating stories.

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    Bill Swallow
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    2 hours ago

    Better a humble heart than a telltale heart.

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    1 hour ago

    What is it?

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    It's obviously the force protecting him. Do you know nothing?

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    Demetrios Churchill
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    1 hour ago

    poor mouse just let him get one dunk

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    Demetrios Churchill
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    1 hour ago

    off he goes to timbuktu

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    Bonesko
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    9 hours ago

    This past June I walked onto my porch and there was a bag of Chinese food there. I checked around with my immediate neighbors, waited a bit, but the food went unclaimed. Ever since they I pray to the porch food God's when I outside. That was a good day! For me anyway.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    Buddha, is that you?

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    Doug Moyer
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    3 hours ago

    That lettuce is nutritionally empty. Hopefully you feed it some real food.

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    LakotaWolf (she/her)
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    Even animals acknowledge that trans people are valid and that trans women are women, but a lot of humans don't. Who's the "most intelligent species" again?

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    kaycee14
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    30 minutes ago

    Or maybe it's dry scalp?

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    This Is My Last Post I’m Shipping Off To Europa In 3 Sol Cycles Thank You For Everything

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    Bill Swallow
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    2 hours ago

    Come to Annandale, VA. If a store owner turns their back for five minutes, their place gets converted into a Korean BBQ.

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    Did I say that out loud?
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    5 hours ago

    Well, not for long, anyway.

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    AtMostAFabulist
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    That dog looks so uncomfortable. Or maybe I am just projecting.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    I feed a squirrel every day & then catch the little s**t in my recycle container as if he's still hungry.

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    NapQueen
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    2 hours ago

    Is it because you have been saying 'looonggggg stretch' when he stretches? Our phones listen to us!

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    The new airport scanner.

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    moggiemoo
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    8 hours ago

    Has it spent 3 years at the bottom of a handbag?

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    He doesn't have to. The women do all the work.

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    Doug Moyer
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    For a few years, my mother worked in a small research lab. They had a few lab rats. Sometimes she'd bring them home on the weekend to care for them. If the rat was not dissected (unusual to do so for this lab), when they 'retired', she would bring them home for the rest of their lives. I built a large cage for her collection of rats. She'd often have one on her shoulder while watching TV.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    "Thanks; I needed my own phone."

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    Doug Moyer
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    3 hours ago

    More variety than in my diet...

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    Yes These Are All Real Everyone Tell My Mom How Goated She Is She Will See This

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    Luke || Kira (he/she)
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    1 hour ago

    Bet he was an Allied spy / saboteur

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    Bill Swallow
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    1 hour ago

    Saw this in a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon.

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    Bonesko
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    9 hours ago

    127 Hours later ...

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    Bill Swallow
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    Should have used a seal point Siamese.

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    After you've had an edible.

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    The Short Lady
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    56 minutes ago

    My grandfather often washed the goat he kept for milk during the depression. He used Cashmere Bouquet. He was a man who believed in cleanliness.

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    Doug Moyer
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    3 hours ago

    She's very helpful

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    Doug Moyer
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    Jesus had more intelligent things to say...

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    Mike Rodrick
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    3 hours ago

    "Ladies & gentlemen of the jury"