Reality Is Often Disappointing Meme Generator
The burger on the menu is tall, glossy and lit like a sunset. The burger on your plate has been sat on.
The flat looked bright and spacious in the photos. The photos were taken with a lens usually used for stadiums.
You ordered the jumper in "forest green". It arrived in what can only be described as "pond".
You finally get a free Saturday. You spend it waiting for a parcel that says "we tried to deliver" at 9:04.
Why it caught on: in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Gamora stabs Thanos on Knowhere, and he dissolves; the real Thanos steps out of the illusion with the Reality Stone and says, almost kindly, "Reality is often disappointing." His heavy, regretful face suits every gap between the picture and the thing that arrives.
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