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BMI doesn't account for muscle mass sarcastic joke

This is a sarcastic image macro meme. The top of the image has text written in alternating upper and lower case, a formatting convention used online to convey sarcastic, mocking tone, that reads "bMi dOeSnT aCcOuNt fOr mUsClE mAsS". Below the text is a photograph of an extremely obese man lying restrained in a hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask, with IV lines attached to his arms and medical oxygen equipment visible nearby, indicating he is receiving treatment for severe health complications likely related to his weight. The meme contrasts the common, often overused excuse from overweight people that their high BMI reading is a result of muscle mass rather than body fat, against an extreme example of someone whose weight is clearly not from muscle, to mock the absurdity of overusing that excuse.
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This is a sarcastic image macro meme. The top of the image has text written in alternating upper and lower case, a formatting convention used online to convey sarcastic, mocking tone, that reads "bMi dOeSnT aCcOuNt fOr mUsClE mAsS". Below the text is a photograph of an extremely obese man lying restrained in a hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask, with IV lines attached to his arms and medical oxygen equipment visible nearby, indicating he is receiving treatment for severe health complications likely related to his weight. The meme contrasts the common, often overused excuse from overweight people that their high BMI reading is a result of muscle mass rather than body fat, against an extreme example of someone whose weight is clearly not from muscle, to mock the absurdity of overusing that excuse.

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This meme is sourced from the Reddit Meme RSS feed as specified. It uses a widely circulated real photograph of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, who was once recorded as the heaviest living man in the world, taken during his medical weight loss treatment in Saudi Arabia. The humorous sarcastic text was added to the existing photograph to create the meme, which plays on a popular joke trope about fitness and weight-related excuses common on social media, fitness forums, and meme communities.

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