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How summer feels like right now

This meme opens with the common internet phrase "Go outside and touch grass", a saying used to suggest people who spend excessive time online should go experience real life. Below this text is a photo of a busy, heavily paved suburban/commercial road in a car-dependent area, with traffic on both sides, cracked asphalt, utility poles, billboards and storefronts lining the street, with almost no visible green grass. The joke highlights the disconnect between the idyllic, nature-filled idea of 'going outside' implied by the phrase, and the unappealing, hot, concrete-heavy actual outside environment many people encounter, especially during summer months.
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This meme opens with the common internet phrase "Go outside and touch grass", a saying used to suggest people who spend excessive time online should go experience real life. Below this text is a photo of a busy, heavily paved suburban/commercial road in a car-dependent area, with traffic on both sides, cracked asphalt, utility poles, billboards and storefronts lining the street, with almost no visible green grass. The joke highlights the disconnect between the idyllic, nature-filled idea of 'going outside' implied by the phrase, and the unappealing, hot, concrete-heavy actual outside environment many people encounter, especially during summer months.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, posted with the original title 'How summer feels like right now'. It uses a widely circulated meme format that pairs the 'touch grass' phrase with images of uninviting or unpleasant outdoor spaces to humorous effect.

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