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Italy is a way longer boot than people realize

This is an absurdist edited meme image. The background is a map of the Italian peninsula, a geographic feature that is commonly described as being shaped like a boot. An extremely overlong, exaggerated brown lace-up boot is overlaid to perfectly align with the full length of Italy, stretching from the southern tip of the country all the way up to its northern border near the Alps. Text at the top of the image reads 'why tf yall say Italy looks like a boot it'd be so long' next to a crying laughing emoji, mocking the common geography comparison by taking it to a literal, absurd extreme to highlight how unreasonably long the country would be if it were actually a standard-sized boot.
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why tf yall say Italy looks like a boot it'd be so long 😭

Overview

This is an absurdist edited meme image. The background is a map of the Italian peninsula, a geographic feature that is commonly described as being shaped like a boot. An extremely overlong, exaggerated brown lace-up boot is overlaid to perfectly align with the full length of Italy, stretching from the southern tip of the country all the way up to its northern border near the Alps. Text at the top of the image reads 'why tf yall say Italy looks like a boot it'd be so long' next to a crying laughing emoji, mocking the common geography comparison by taking it to a literal, absurd extreme to highlight how unreasonably long the country would be if it were actually a standard-sized boot.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the Reddit r/meme subreddit, posted with the original title 'that much long boot'. It is an original edited meme created by overlaying an image of an extra long boot on a map of Italy to play on the widely known popular joke that the shape of Italy resembles a boot.

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