Anti Joke Chicken Meme Template
Anti-Joke Chicken grew from anti-humor conventions: establish a familiar joke expectation, then refuse the clever punchline. The source chicken photo is attributed by KYM to photographer Marshall E. Tyler; the format spread online in 2011.
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What the Anti Joke Chicken meme means
Anti-Joke Chicken grew from anti-humor conventions: establish a familiar joke expectation, then refuse the clever punchline. The source chicken photo is attributed by KYM to photographer Marshall E. Tyler; the format spread online in 2011.
Advice-animal macro of a chicken delivering a setup and deliberately flat, literal, or obvious answer.
How the joke works
Slot 1 must create the expectation of a joke, riddle, or dramatic reveal; slot 2 answers plainly, literally, or with an anticlimactic fact. Don’t sneak in a clever twist—the missing twist is the punchline.
- Joke/riddle setup
- Literal, flat, anticlimactic answer
Caption examples
- Why did the printer stop?
- It ran out of paper.
- Why did the phone cross the road?
- To get to the other side of the app
Situations it fits
- a classic riddle gets its literal answer
- a dramatic question receives the obvious fact
- a big reveal turns out to be exactly what was stated
- a familiar setup ends without wordplay
- someone asks why a mundane thing happened and gets the factual reason
