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Flirting Skill Difference When Casual vs Actually In Love

This meme uses Dark Souls fantasy art to create a relatable humorous comparison. A towering, powerful, imposing knight character (Soul of Cinder) stands over the landscape, captioned 'My flirting skill when I am not serious', representing effortless, confident flirting when someone has no real emotional investment in the interaction. Below it, a tiny, vastly outmatched small knight (the Ashen One) weakly attempts to attack the giant figure, captioned 'My flirting skill when I am in love', representing how people become awkward, underconfident, and incompetent at flirting when they have genuine romantic feelings for the other person, highlighting the relatable gap between casual and serious romantic interaction skills.
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My flirting skill when I am not serious
My flirting skill when I am in love

Overview

This meme uses Dark Souls fantasy art to create a relatable humorous comparison. A towering, powerful, imposing knight character (Soul of Cinder) stands over the landscape, captioned 'My flirting skill when I am not serious', representing effortless, confident flirting when someone has no real emotional investment in the interaction. Below it, a tiny, vastly outmatched small knight (the Ashen One) weakly attempts to attack the giant figure, captioned 'My flirting skill when I am in love', representing how people become awkward, underconfident, and incompetent at flirting when they have genuine romantic feelings for the other person, highlighting the relatable gap between casual and serious romantic interaction skills.

Origin notes

The base artwork is fan art of characters from the Dark Souls 3 video game developed by FromSoftware. This meme edit was shared on the X (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg, sourced via RSS feed. It follows a common meme format that uses contrasting powerful vs weak fantasy character art to illustrate relatable everyday skill or confidence differences between two scenarios.

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