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People Are Cracking Up At These 31 Venn Diagrams That Are More Funny Than Useful
The most satisfying part of any presentation is the diagrams. Since humans like to learn words through visuals, diagrams are the perfect tool to summarize someone’s findings in a simple, but dense and effective way.
Making diagrams is so fun that Venn diagrams have actually become a fun template for memes. People creating memes use Venn diagrams to show unexpected relations between people and things, pointing out how stupid some individuals can be or how unfair life can get. Imgur user ParallelParkingInABurka has been collecting these memes for a while now and shared their collection for everyone to appreciate this format, and we added even more of the best ones the internet could offer.
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You might not have heard of the term Venn diagram, but you certainly have seen it. As Investopedia explains, "A Venn diagram is an illustration that uses circles to show the relationships among things or finite groups of things. Circles that overlap have a commonality while circles that do not overlap do not share those traits."
These kinds of diagrams "help to visually represent the similarities and differences between two concepts” and they have been used since the mid-20th century. Even though they became more widely spread during this period, they existed quite some time before that.
First of all the diagram became more known in the 1880s when English mathematician, logician and philosopher John Venn’s popularized it. That's actually where the name as we now know it comes from.
Even though the diagram was named after the person who popularized them, similar ones were created in the 1700s and they were known as Eulerian circles because it was the Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler who created them. And the confusion doesn’t stop there, because the name was changed by Clarence Lewis in 1918, in his book A Survey of Symbolic Logic.
Venn diagrams are usually used in logic theory, but they've found their way into other fields such as statistics, linguistics, education, and computer sciences. They are also used in business and are a useful tool in comparisons.
And as is evident, they also caught the eye of meme creators as they've become a template to reflect on society or to compare incomparable concepts. They are some of the simplest diagrams and are self-explanatory, so that could have contributed to their popularity on the internet.
Surely no-one is dumb enough to take on a flying ball of rage
Load More Replies...actually, I raise you the cassowary. If you do not think birds are dinosaurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBM7AI0yp78
I'd say trying to cross the Stavanger town square (next to the harbour) carrying an icecream is just as scary. Stavanger ist he only place I know where they have warning signs against seagulls
Oh God. Could you imagine if nature decided to screw us all and allowed a goose to make with an ostrich? Pretty sure that right there would be the apocalypse
I was attacked by a domestic turkey when I was little. It’s been decades and there is still a visible scar on my leg. Feathered dinosaurs are scary AF.
Emus won a war against the Australian military and they are still around, They aren't even the largest bird around. So yes you should be scared of feathered dinos.
I feel like Mike Rowe would appreciate this. Anyone remember the Dirty Jobs episode where he went to the ostrich farm?
Third circle (out of the picture): australians that fought in the Emu War
I used to work at a zoo. I was placed in the stables. Night shift forgot to let me know that due to a cold spell, the emus have been moved into an unused box in the stable. I almost opened the door when I just felt a chill running down my spine. Looked up and an emu was staring at me through the grates placed on top of the door. That, my friends, was a near-death experience.
According to Know Your Meme, one of the first times the Venn diagram was used as a meme format was probably on the website Indexed on August 9th, 2006. It shows a three-way Venn diagram with overlapping circles. The circles are named Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy. The thing they have in common, according to the creator of the meme, is religious doubt.
Lucidchart also mentions one of the earliest examples of Venn diagram memes. They share one from a 2008 post on the blog I’d Rather Be Writing. It showed one circle which was called ‘what you’d write to only yourself’ and the other one called ‘what you’d write to the entire world.’ The two circles overlapped and what both of the things had in common was that they both belonged on a blog.
Since then, the Venn diagram has been a recognizable format and has been used so often that some don't find it funny anymore and have mocked it, but it seems that it hasn't disappeared completely as there are still people like ParallelParkingInABurka enjoying it.
We would like to know if you are one of those people who enjoys a Venn diagram meme, or do you find that it should remain in the mathematics world instead of trying to be relatable on the internet? Let us know your thoughts and don’t forget to upvote the memes that made you laugh the most!
I'm all of these but not a librarian. I have thwarted destiny!
I brought a suit with me in case I got invited to a fancy party. I did not in fact get invited to any fancy parties.
I'd like to see this one: 1) owns AK-15s. 2) owns big pickup truck with oversize tires 3) owns "balls" (fake testes) hanging from the differential or trailer hitch.
🟥Speaks 3+ languages 🟩Loud gibberish 🟦Jealous 24/7 🟥🟩Demons 🟩🟦Karens 🟥🟦2nd place in F1 🟥🟩🟦russian presodent Due to technical limits I cannot enter in a comment a venn diagram
Took me a while to figure out but this is actually pretty good
Load More Replies...And I thought Venn Diagrams were only good for boring 8 year olds
Aha i use Venn diagrams all the time at work. They really help me stay focused... Oh wait, sorry. I meant drugs. I use drugs at work. You know, like coffee...etc. ;-) edit: dear Lord, please say i am not responding to a minor child. Drugs are bad!
Load More Replies...I'd like to see this one: 1) owns AK-15s. 2) owns big pickup truck with oversize tires 3) owns "balls" (fake testes) hanging from the differential or trailer hitch.
🟥Speaks 3+ languages 🟩Loud gibberish 🟦Jealous 24/7 🟥🟩Demons 🟩🟦Karens 🟥🟦2nd place in F1 🟥🟩🟦russian presodent Due to technical limits I cannot enter in a comment a venn diagram
Took me a while to figure out but this is actually pretty good
Load More Replies...And I thought Venn Diagrams were only good for boring 8 year olds
Aha i use Venn diagrams all the time at work. They really help me stay focused... Oh wait, sorry. I meant drugs. I use drugs at work. You know, like coffee...etc. ;-) edit: dear Lord, please say i am not responding to a minor child. Drugs are bad!
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