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There are some phrases that just don’t make sense. They get printed on shirts, billboards, and street signs, and if you encounter one, you’ll know it. Looking thrice and turning your head upside down won’t help. Asking for a friend’s help in deciphering the message won’t do much either.

You may call these phrases cursed and you wouldn’t be wrong. But there is an online group that’s not only entirely dedicated to these nonsensical phrases, but has also defined them as a phenomenon worthy of our attention on its own. Powered by 603k members, the Don't Dead Open Inside subreddit is a place for “signs and media that read as nonsense if read normally: from left to right.”

It may sound tricky, but bear with me. Below are some of the funniest signs that require 0% common sense and to throw everything you know about sentence structure out the window. Who knew that there could be so much sense in such nonsense?!

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    Just like most things on the internet, the subreddit Don't Dead Open Inside wasn’t created out of nowhere. The trope first came to internet users' attention when its name was used in a promotional poster for the TV series The Walking Dead. To this day, the Don't Dead Open Inside poster, revealed on July 2nd, 2010, stands as one of the most recognized examples of the trope in popular culture that caused the cult following on Reddit.

    According to Know Your Meme, the infamous poster featured a photograph of a double door with the words "Don't Open" written on the left side and "Dead Inside" written on the right, which should be interpreted "Don't open, dead inside" if read in the correct order. The whole fun of the trope is revealed when the reader reads the phrase line by line instead, which sounds like "Don't dead open inside."

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    Knowing the speed things surf around social media, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a couple of users on Twitter shared their reactions to the unusual poster on social media. In the following years, “the memes based on the joke were made, with Know Your Meme user irish_swede archiving one such example on March 12, 2013,” reported Know Your Meme.

    On May 17th, 2014, the subreddit r/dontdeadopeninside was created, where the community collected cases of the trope found in popular culture, design, advertising, etc. Today, it’s home to 603k members that follow a strict set of rules for submissions.

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    The first and most important rule is that all posts have to comply to DDOI format. “Signs must be read correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right, like any text, usually. Though it does not matter how easily you can read them, it is highly encouraged to only post images with little separation or spacing between the columns of words.”

    The community doesn’t allow both reposts and memes, and encourages users to “put the 'correctly read' way in the title, like 'DONT DEAD OPEN INSIDE.'”

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    Ekate
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I usually go with spilling hot coffee on myself when the lid's not on properly.

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    Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!

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    Boaz Krebs
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, bees do open outside. (i red it like 'don't bees open outside?')

    l frank
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are the bees opening a honey shop? "Don't bees open outside"?

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is another example of the importance of punctuation. "Don't, Bees, open outside." Also, articles are important. I know Russian doesn't use them, but English does. It should read "Don't, Bees, open the outside." Also, Bees could be a typo, and the sign is supposed to read, "Don't, Bess, open the outside." Unfortunately, Unless Bess knows what is meant by opening the outside (of what?) the sign is pointless. YOU HAD ONE JOB

    Linda Robinett
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And who cares. We have a bee tree and no one has been stung. European honey bees are gentle creatures.

    Rebecca Lee
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe the bees are trying to get in to escape the tree’s giant erection.

    El Dee
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have read these words in every order possible and they STILL make no sense!!

    Carrie Laughs
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm assuming it is 'don't open (the window because there are a lot of) bees outside' . Maybe they've had a swarm. That can be pretty scary.

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    Nikki Sevven
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't understand how people make this mistake. There is no instance in which English is not read left to right FIRST, then top to bottom.

    Twisted
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bees? Outside? That’s crazy talk. The bees are supposed to be inside.

    PandaCoco
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even the cut tree outside was complaining about the sign. "Oh come on man!"

    Julia Atkinson
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, bees CLOSE outside. Put that pollen down! Honey's for closers only!

    Donkey boi
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems to me that there should be a question mark at the end, then it would be the sort of thing my sister would say. 'Don't bees open outside?'

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    Hello it Smee
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hope this isn't a bathroom sign, someone will pee themselves before figuring out with way to go.

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    Keep Minimum Please The Distance

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    I'm Sick Of This

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