Asking your partner where to eat turns you into a clown

Four caption lines describing the scenario of choosing a restaurant with a partner

This is a 4-panel vertical image macro meme. Each panel pairs text on the left with a corresponding image of a man applying clown makeup on the right. 1st panel: Text reads 'You ask her where she wants to go to eat', image shows the man applying white base face paint. 2nd panel: Text reads 'She says she doesn't care and tells you to decide', image shows the man adding clown eye makeup, blush and lip paint. 3rd panel: Text reads 'You think about it', image shows the man putting on a bright rainbow colored clown wig. 4th panel: Text reads 'You decide where to eat and go there', image shows the man fully made up as a clown, complete with a red nose. The joke satirizes the common real-life relationship frustration where a partner claims to not have a preference for where to eat, but will actually be unhappy with whatever choice the other person makes, making the person who makes the choice look like a fool (clown).

This meme uses the widely popular 'clown makeup application' meme template, shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit under the original title 'Not how it works'. The template is commonly used to highlight situations where someone unknowingly sets themselves up to be mocked or end up as the fool for taking something at face value. An imgflip.com watermark is present at the bottom left, indicating the meme was likely created using the Imgflip meme generator before being shared to Reddit.