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Peaky Blenders Pun Meme

This meme uses the common format of a person denying they are laughing at anything while their brain is preoccupied with a silly internal joke. The humor comes from a wordplay pun on the popular British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*: the image below the setup text shows three kitchen blenders, each wearing the iconic herringbone flat newsboy caps that characters from *Peaky Blinders* are famously associated with, with text below the blenders reading 'Peaky Blenders' as the punchline.
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Friend: Why are you laughing?
Me: Nothing
Brain:

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Peaky Blenders

Overview

This meme uses the common format of a person denying they are laughing at anything while their brain is preoccupied with a silly internal joke. The humor comes from a wordplay pun on the popular British crime drama series Peaky Blinders: the image below the setup text shows three kitchen blenders, each wearing the iconic herringbone flat newsboy caps that characters from Peaky Blinders are famously associated with, with text below the blenders reading 'Peaky Blenders' as the punchline.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme via its RSS feed. It is a lighthearted wholesome pun meme created by editing flat cap graphics onto stock photos of kitchen blenders, paired with the widely used 'why are you laughing' meme text template.

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