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‘Women Laughing Alone With Tablets’ Is the New ‘Women Laughing Alone With Salad’

Behold: the latest inexplicable stock image phenomenon

A few years ago, we were introduced to Women Laughing Alone With Salad: a gallery (and then meme) that pointed out the weirdly high number of stock images of, well, women laughing alone with salad.

Well, as On the Media has noticed, there’s a new trend that could soon take over the Internet. Women are still laughing, and they’re still alone, but this time, they get to hold tablets instead of salad bowls. Progress?

No seriously though, there are a lot of stock images of women laughing alone with tablets. Behold:

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It’s actually pretty fun to imagine that these women are using their tablets to look at (and laugh at) stock images of women laughing alone with tablets. Meta.

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