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Giant Squid With Large Pizza Sized Eyes

This meme features a news headline announcing the discovery of a giant squid, describing the animal as bigger than a school bus with eyes the size of a large pizza. Below the headline are two side-by-side underwater photographs of a giant squid: one shows the full body of the squid, while the other is a closeup shot focusing on the squid's large eye. Underneath the photos is a Twitter/X comment from user @Touyarokii joking that they are a big fan of the casual, relatable food-based measurement used to describe the squid's eye instead of formal units of measurement.
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big fan of how they described the measurements here

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Evidence of giant squid discovered - bodacious beast is bigger than a school bus with eyes the size of a large pizza

Overview

This meme features a news headline announcing the discovery of a giant squid, describing the animal as bigger than a school bus with eyes the size of a large pizza. Below the headline are two side-by-side underwater photographs of a giant squid: one shows the full body of the squid, while the other is a closeup shot focusing on the squid's large eye. Underneath the photos is a Twitter/X comment from user @Touyarokii joking that they are a big fan of the casual, relatable food-based measurement used to describe the squid's eye instead of formal units of measurement.

Origin notes

This meme originated as a reaction post on Twitter/X by user @Touyarokii responding to a real news article announcing the discovery of a giant squid. It was later reposted to the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, which is the provided RSS source. The humor comes from the unusual choice to use a common food item (large pizza) as a unit of measurement for the squid's eye, which feels far more accessible and humorous to general audiences than technical scientific measurements.

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