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The results aren't even that great

The meme features a person lying in an ICU hospital bed with their entire face wrapped in bandages, intubated, and looking visibly regretful. The repeated overlaid text jokes about a person named Clavicular who is in the ICU after taking drugs to improve their appearance, coming to the realization that the severe negative health consequences they are now suffering are not at all worth the small cosmetic improvement they were seeking, with the implicit punchline matching the original post title that the end cosmetic results are not even good to begin with.
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Clavicular in the ICU realizing that taking all those drug to look better was not worth it

Overview

The meme features a person lying in an ICU hospital bed with their entire face wrapped in bandages, intubated, and looking visibly regretful. The repeated overlaid text jokes about a person named Clavicular who is in the ICU after taking drugs to improve their appearance, coming to the realization that the severe negative health consequences they are now suffering are not at all worth the small cosmetic improvement they were seeking, with the implicit punchline matching the original post title that the end cosmetic results are not even good to begin with.

Origin notes

This meme was originally shared on Reddit as a post with the title 'The results aren't even that great'. It uses a widely circulated reaction meme template of a bandaged patient in intensive care, which is commonly used online to express extreme regret over short-sighted decisions that lead to devastatingly bad outcomes.

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