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Just touch the grass bruh: Out of touch self improvement advice joke

This is a black and white line art single-panel meme. A conventionally attractive, fit, blond young man is giving generic, unhelpful self-improvement advice to another man wearing glasses who has less conventionally attractive facial features. The speech bubble from the blond man reads 'Looks don't matter, Just be confident. Do some pushups. Drink water.' The humor comes from the disconnect: the advice giver is physically privileged, so he does not experience the same appearance-related struggles the man receiving the advice faces, making his advice completely out of touch. The title 'Just touch the grass bruh' mocks the advice giver for being disconnected from real world experiences of people who are not as conventionally attractive.
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Looks don't matter, Just be confident. Do some pushups. Drink water.

Overview

This is a black and white line art single-panel meme. A conventionally attractive, fit, blond young man is giving generic, unhelpful self-improvement advice to another man wearing glasses who has less conventionally attractive facial features. The speech bubble from the blond man reads 'Looks don't matter, Just be confident. Do some pushups. Drink water.' The humor comes from the disconnect: the advice giver is physically privileged, so he does not experience the same appearance-related struggles the man receiving the advice faces, making his advice completely out of touch. The title 'Just touch the grass bruh' mocks the advice giver for being disconnected from real world experiences of people who are not as conventionally attractive.

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This meme was sourced from 9Gag via an RSS feed, with the original posted title 'Just touch the grass bruh...'. It falls under the popular meme format of mocking privileged, out-of-touch people giving useless generic advice to people facing disadvantages that the advice giver does not experience.

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