Horse or Crocodile? How to tell the difference
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Parody comparison chart claiming there are almost no differences between horses and crocodiles
Overview
This is an absurdist parody infographic meme set against a pale yellow background, framed as a guide to tell horses and crocodiles apart. It displays headshots of a brown horse on the left and a crocodile on the right, with a side-by-side comparison chart below. Most of the comparison points are either identical for both animals, completely useless, or absurdly unrelated: both have 2 eyes, have teeth, weigh less than 250,000kg, live on Earth, wear no attire, have a 'high' likelihood of eating a sugar cube if offered, are not responsible for the death of Princess Diana, and had no involvement in the 1917 overthrow of the Russian government. The only minor difference listed is that horses have quite pointy ears while crocodiles do not. The final conclusion jokes that there are very few differences between the two vastly different animals, with humor derived from the deliberately unhelpful, irrelevant comparison points that intentionally ignore the obvious major differences between the two species.
Origin notes
This meme is sourced from the RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It follows a popular absurdist meme format of parody instructional infographics that use deliberately useless, non-sensical comparison points to make a ridiculous, counterintuitive conclusion about two obviously different things.