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Absurd Banana For Scale Meme

This meme shows two yellow bananas placed on a plain dark gray background. Text at the top of the image first reads 'look how big this banana is!', followed by a line below that says '(banana for scale)'. The humor comes from subverting the widely used internet 'banana for scale' trope, where people include a banana in photos of other objects to give viewers a universal reference for the object's size. In this case, the object being measured is itself a banana, and the 'scale' reference is a second, only slightly smaller banana, making the size measurement completely redundant and absurd.
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Overview

This meme shows two yellow bananas placed on a plain dark gray background. Text at the top of the image first reads 'look how big this banana is!', followed by a line below that says '(banana for scale)'. The humor comes from subverting the widely used internet 'banana for scale' trope, where people include a banana in photos of other objects to give viewers a universal reference for the object's size. In this case, the object being measured is itself a banana, and the 'scale' reference is a second, only slightly smaller banana, making the size measurement completely redundant and absurd.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of X.com (formerly Twitter) user @meme.jpg. The 'banana for scale' trope has been a popular internet convention since the mid-2010s, and this specific version is a common parody of the convention that has been reposted widely across social media platforms.

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