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The “What People Think” Internet Meme

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A couple years ago, there were a lot of “what people think” memes placed on social networking sites.  These usually involved a series of pictures subtitled with lines like, “what my mom thinks I do” or “what society thinks I do.” Usually at the very end there is a final photographic punchline.

We’ve scoured the internet in order to find a handful of these that apply to our culture. If you find these hard to read, please click on them to enlarge:

Climbers Meme
Skiing Meme 1
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