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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?!


#3

Will There Be Blood Or Not!?

Will There Be Blood Or Not!?

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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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#5

Choose Abortion Life Kills

Choose Abortion Life Kills

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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.

#7

Doesn’t Sound Like Fun

Doesn’t Sound Like Fun

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#8

Don’t Save A Life Be Afraid To Give Blood

Don’t Save A Life Be Afraid To Give Blood

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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.'”

#10

Guaranteed Reduced Quality

Guaranteed Reduced Quality

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#11

7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans

7 Surprising Black Ways To Use Beans

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#12

Aliectass

Aliectass

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#15

Stand Hong With Kong

Stand Hong With Kong

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#17

If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?

If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?

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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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#21

Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!

Stop Earth The Denying Is Dying!

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#23

Saw This At Work Today And Immediately Thought Of This Sub

Saw This At Work Today And Immediately Thought Of This Sub

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#24

Always Forgotten - Missed Never

Always Forgotten - Missed Never

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#26

Was There Even An Intended Order To Begin With?

Was There Even An Intended Order To Begin With?

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#29

Vote Dump Early Trump

Vote Dump Early Trump

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#30

Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo

Friend Of A Friend Got A New Tattoo

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#31

This Is A F**king Massacre. Thing Made Me Want To Dead

This Is A F**king Massacre. Thing Made Me Want To Dead

reddit.com Report

#35

You Think Some Tattooist Hate Their Own Work?

You Think Some Tattooist Hate Their Own Work?

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#36

This Giant Poster In My University Dorm

This Giant Poster In My University Dorm

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#37

Drugs May Kill You, But Never Your They’ll Hurt Feelings

Drugs May Kill You, But Never Your They’ll Hurt Feelings

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#38

Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning

Teachers Who Love Teach Children Teaching To Love Learning

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#39

Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside

Hear That Noise? We Are Growing. We Can Fix It Again. Apply Inside

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#40

My Girlfriends Kitchen Tiles. Forffee Coyou

My Girlfriends Kitchen Tiles. Forffee Coyou

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#41

Spicey Vaccine

Spicey Vaccine

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Iso
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if you get the pumpkin flu, make sure you get the spice shot as well!

Kathryn Baylis
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spice and shot. Will the whites of my eyes turn blue after exposure to the spice?

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

"It's not fall unless you've had pumpkin flu and spice a shot"

MAKtheknife
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I had Pumpkin Flu once, it was awful spicy, then I got shot.

Giulia Marsella
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A vegan version of flu! After all the evils we got from animal torturing and consumption now a sickness coming from a plant! Interesting!🤓

Giulia Marsella
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After the cow flu, the pig flu, the bat flu, the pumpkin flu.. a vegan kind of flu 🙃

Johanne Trudeau
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't know there were flavors in vaccines... I want one of them, now!!

Caroline Overill
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that like bird flu? Anyway I'm getting spice and a shot to be on the safe side.

Charlotte Carpenter
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

its not fall until you've had pumpkin flu spice and a shot 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

Aishwarya Lahiri
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The spice shot will tell you what you want what you really really want

RoseTheMad
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not basic unless you've had your pumpkin spiced latte this fall!

Patricio2223
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

apparently it hasn't been fall for me for quite a few years. Just been skipping from summer to winter

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

If spice shot was a thing I feel like influencers would be all over that

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#45

Call Me Don’t

Call Me Don’t

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