IQ Curve Meme Template
This is the three-position IQ Bell Curve / Midwit format. Its satirical setup commonly has the left and right figures arrive at the same simple conclusion, while the central “midwit” overcomplicates it or takes a self-important middle position. The IQ graph is a rhetorical meme device, not a valid measure of whether a specific opinion is correct. This catalog image uses a crying glasses-wearing center figure and a hooded right figure.
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What the IQ Curve meme means
This is the three-position IQ Bell Curve / Midwit format. Its satirical setup commonly has the left and right figures arrive at the same simple conclusion, while the central “midwit” overcomplicates it or takes a self-important middle position. The IQ graph is a rhetorical meme device, not a valid measure of whether a specific opinion is correct. This catalog image uses a crying glasses-wearing center figure and a hooded right figure.
A wide white graphic shows a blue bell-shaped IQ distribution labeled with percentages and scores. A simple figure is positioned at the low end on the left, a crying glasses-wearing figure above the center, and a calm hooded figure on the high end on the right. The three active text boxes align respectively with left, center-top, and right positions.
How the joke works
Use slot-1 (left) for a short instinctive answer or conclusion. Slot-2 (center) should complicate, qualify, or over-intellectualize that same topic, often in noticeably longer wording. Slot-3 (right) should return to a concise conclusion equivalent to slot-1, with a different plainspoken or expert-sounding rationale if useful. The outer captions should be semantically linked; exact repeated wording is optional.
- Left low-end figure: a short instinctive answer or simple conclusion.
- Center figure: the overcomplicated, anxious, or pseudo-intellectual middle take.
- Right high-end figure: concise conclusion equivalent to the left, expressed with calm or expert confidence.
Caption examples
- Restart the router.
- We should first map the network topology, test the DNS resolver, inspect the firmware, and isolate each device.
- Restart the router.
The middle dramatically overengineers the same simple fix expressed by both outer positions.
- Buy a notebook.
- The weather is pleasant today.
- Learn to swim.
The captions do not share a topic or demonstrate the three-part relationship.
Situations it fits
- simple solution versus overengineering
- common sense versus needless jargon
- beginner and expert converging on an answer
- self-mocking overthinking about everyday choices
When this format does not fit
- Do not write three unrelated opinions; all positions should address the same question or decision.
- Do not make the center caption another short copy of an outer caption; its role is to overcomplicate or complicate the issue.
- Keep outer captions short enough to read in the side regions.
- Do not present the diagram as scientific evidence that IQ determines the correctness of a belief.
