Infodumping random facts instead of flirting meme
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She's out of my league; I'll offer to buy her a drink; She needs to hear about how the CIA artificially boosted Jackson Pollock's popularity
Overview
The meme uses a stock photo of a tall glass bottle filled with brown liquor (such as whiskey) against a plain white background, with three bracketed sections marked along the height of the bottle corresponding to the relative size of different impulses a person feels when approaching someone they are attracted to who they perceive as out of their league. The smallest top section is labeled 'She's out of my league', the slightly larger middle section is labeled 'I'll offer to buy her a drink', and the overwhelmingly large bottom section that takes up nearly the entire bottle is labeled 'She needs to hear about how the CIA artificially boosted Jackson Pollock's popularity'. The joke relies on the relatable experience of people with niche, obscure interests immediately wanting to infodump random irrelevant facts instead of making appropriate small talk when interacting with a romantic interest, highlighting the absurdly lopsided priority people can give to sharing their special interests over normal romantic interaction.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of public meme posts from Reddit, with the original poster's title being 'Idk why I'm like this'. It uses the common proportional bottle/container labeling meme format, a popular relatable meme template used across platforms including Reddit, X/Twitter, and Instagram to visualize the relative size of different competing thoughts, impulses, or priorities in a given scenario.
