AboutWhat does the meme depict?

Anti-Joke Chicken is an image macro series that showcases a chicken against a starburst background typically associated with advice animals. The image features a hen at the center with top and bottom text captions. The top caption starts like a traditional joke, but the bottom caption delivers an anticlimactic and unexpected punchline, thus subverting the joke format.

OriginWho did it first?

The concept of anti-humor, which is central to the Anti-Joke Chicken meme, has origins predating the internet, with the joke setup followed by a non-punchline creating a type of ironic, meta-joke. A relevant form of such anti-humor can be traced back to at least the mid-1800s, implying a long-standing tradition of this humor style that partially inspired the meme. The image used for the meme was originally photographed by a professional ophthalmic photographer, Marshall E. Tyler, at his home in North Carolina.^[1]