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This Is How Clouds Are Made Cotton Candy Joke Meme

The meme features text at the top reading 'This is how clouds are made:' above a photograph of a bearded man wearing a red headband and red t-shirt, standing in a commercial kitchen or candy production space. The man is holding an extremely large, fluffy, perfectly white ball of cotton candy that looks nearly identical to a cumulus cloud. The humor comes from the absurd, deadpan false explanation of natural cloud formation, playing directly on the visual similarity between the oversized cotton candy and real clouds.
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Overview

The meme features text at the top reading 'This is how clouds are made:' above a photograph of a bearded man wearing a red headband and red t-shirt, standing in a commercial kitchen or candy production space. The man is holding an extremely large, fluffy, perfectly white ball of cotton candy that looks nearly identical to a cumulus cloud. The humor comes from the absurd, deadpan false explanation of natural cloud formation, playing directly on the visual similarity between the oversized cotton candy and real clouds.

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This meme is sourced from the X.com (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg, distributed via RSS feed. It is a simple original visual joke that combines a real photograph of oversized cotton candy with a silly, fake explanatory text overlay to create a relatable absurdist joke.

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