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Women Running Every Time You Turn On VPN Meme

This meme features a stock photograph of four diverse, happy women jogging together outdoors on a sunny day. Bold white overlaid text jokes that these are women from the poster's local area who run to an entirely new country every time the poster turns on their VPN, referencing the common experience of dating or hookup app ads that show 'local singles' whose apparent location changes immediately when you switch your VPN to a different region.
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WOMEN FROM MY AREA RUNNING TO A NEW COUNTRY EVERY TIME I TURN ON MY VPN

Overview

This meme features a stock photograph of four diverse, happy women jogging together outdoors on a sunny day. Bold white overlaid text jokes that these are women from the poster's local area who run to an entirely new country every time the poster turns on their VPN, referencing the common experience of dating or hookup app ads that show 'local singles' whose apparent location changes immediately when you switch your VPN to a different region.

Origin notes

This meme was originally shared to the r/meme subreddit on Reddit with the original title 'Some of us just have it.' It uses a common royalty-free stock photo of female joggers, edited to add the joke caption using the Imgflip meme generation tool, as evidenced by the 'imgflip.com' watermark in the bottom left corner of the image.

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