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Side effects of overthinking

This meme uses the popular 'couple lying in bed' template to joke about the disconnect between partner assumptions and random overthinking. The top text first states the woman's concern that her boyfriend is thinking about other women, then reveals he is actually preoccupied with a bizarre, irrelevant question: what bed bugs did before humans invented beds. The accompanying image shows the couple lying in bed facing apart: the woman looks suspicious, annoyed, and is glancing sideways at the man, while the man stares blankly into the distance, completely zoned out in thought. The joke highlights how people often overthink trivial, random questions instead of the serious negative things their partners might suspect them of considering.
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Her: He's probably thinking about other women...
Him: What where bed bugs doing before people invented beds?

Overview

This meme uses the popular 'couple lying in bed' template to joke about the disconnect between partner assumptions and random overthinking. The top text first states the woman's concern that her boyfriend is thinking about other women, then reveals he is actually preoccupied with a bizarre, irrelevant question: what bed bugs did before humans invented beds. The accompanying image shows the couple lying in bed facing apart: the woman looks suspicious, annoyed, and is glancing sideways at the man, while the man stares blankly into the distance, completely zoned out in thought. The joke highlights how people often overthink trivial, random questions instead of the serious negative things their partners might suspect them of considering.

Origin notes

This is a variant of the widely circulated 'He's probably thinking about other women' meme format that uses a well-known stock photo of a couple in bed. This specific version was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as noted in the provided source information, playing on the theme of side effects of overthinking. The core template has been remixed thousands of times across social media platforms with different joke text for the man's random thoughts.

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