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This is a visual comedy meme that uses a popular photo of two men with a drastic height difference to illustrate an ecological fact. The shorter, muscular man (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) has text overlaid reading "TREES, GETTING ALL THE CREDIT", while the far taller man (former basketball player Sun Mingming) has text overlaid reading "ALGAE, WHICH PRODUCE 60% OF OXYGEN". The joke highlights that contrary to popular belief, algae are responsible for producing most of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen, but receive almost none of the public recognition that trees get for oxygen production.
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ALGAE, WHICH PRODUCE 60% OF OXYGEN
TREES, GETTING ALL THE CREDIT

Overview

This is a visual comedy meme that uses a popular photo of two men with a drastic height difference to illustrate an ecological fact. The shorter, muscular man (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) has text overlaid reading "TREES, GETTING ALL THE CREDIT", while the far taller man (former basketball player Sun Mingming) has text overlaid reading "ALGAE, WHICH PRODUCE 60% OF OXYGEN". The joke highlights that contrary to popular belief, algae are responsible for producing most of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen, but receive almost none of the public recognition that trees get for oxygen production.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit:Meme subreddit per the provided metadata. The base image is a widely circulated viral photograph of Dwayne Johnson posing with Sun Mingming. The creator added text overlays to connect the height difference in the photo to the little-known ecological fact about oxygen production. The boredpanda.com watermark present on the bottom right of the image indicates the meme was also previously shared on the Bored Panda content platform before being posted to Reddit.

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