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This meme uses dark humor to joke about unintended weight loss caused by poverty. The top of the image displays a short dialogue: a friend asks 'Wow! You got thinner. What's your diet?', to which the speaker replies 'Poverty'. Below the text is a well-known reaction image of a man with a distant, blank, defeated expression, overlaid with a faded double exposure effect that emphasizes the resigned, gloomy feeling of the joke, referencing the reality of not having enough money to afford sufficient food leading to weight loss.
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Friend: Wow! You got thinner. What's your diet?
Me: Poverty

Overview

This meme uses dark humor to joke about unintended weight loss caused by poverty. The top of the image displays a short dialogue: a friend asks 'Wow! You got thinner. What's your diet?', to which the speaker replies 'Poverty'. Below the text is a well-known reaction image of a man with a distant, blank, defeated expression, overlaid with a faded double exposure effect that emphasizes the resigned, gloomy feeling of the joke, referencing the reality of not having enough money to afford sufficient food leading to weight loss.

Origin notes

This meme was retrieved from an RSS feed of Reddit's meme communities. It uses a widely circulated viral reaction image template, with added text to create a relatable joke about financial hardship, which is a common type of content posted on Reddit meme subreddits focused on relatable life struggles and dark humor.

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