Bad Luck Brian Tries Healthy Eating Gets Sick Meme

This is a classic Bad Luck Brian advice animal meme. The top overlaid text reads "WANTS TO START EATING HEALTHY", and the bottom overlaid text reads "EATS A SALAD AND GETS CYCLOSPORIASIS". The joke relies on ironic misfortune: the subject tries to improve their health by eating a salad, a widely considered healthy food, but instead contracts cyclosporiasis, a parasitic foodborne illness commonly linked to contaminated fresh produce like salad greens, which is the exact opposite of the intended positive outcome, playing directly into the Bad Luck Brian character's signature trope of experiencing absurdly unlucky events. The subject wears a light blue collared shirt under a red plaid sweater vest against a solid purple background, with his signature awkward, teary smiling expression and braces.

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WANTS TO START EATING HEALTHY

EATS A SALAD AND GETS CYCLOSPORIASIS

Overview

This is a classic Bad Luck Brian advice animal meme. The top overlaid text reads "WANTS TO START EATING HEALTHY", and the bottom overlaid text reads "EATS A SALAD AND GETS CYCLOSPORIASIS". The joke relies on ironic misfortune: the subject tries to improve their health by eating a salad, a widely considered healthy food, but instead contracts cyclosporiasis, a parasitic foodborne illness commonly linked to contaminated fresh produce like salad greens, which is the exact opposite of the intended positive outcome, playing directly into the Bad Luck Brian character's signature trope of experiencing absurdly unlucky events. The subject wears a light blue collared shirt under a red plaid sweater vest against a solid purple background, with his signature awkward, teary smiling expression and braces.

Origin notes

This meme uses the iconic Bad Luck Brian template, which originates from a 2006 high school yearbook photo of Kyle Craven that went viral on Reddit's r/AdviceAnimals subreddit in January 2012 as a universal format for depicting comically unlucky, ironic scenarios. This specific iteration was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, per the provided source metadata, and was created using the Imgflip meme generator, as evidenced by the Imgflip watermark present in the bottom left corner of the image.