The What I Said vs What They Heard meme is used when something got lost in translation. Panel 1 is a clear, sensible thing the speaker said. Panel 2 is how the listener understood it.
Our recreation of the What I Said vs What They Heard format, with a small business caption.
How the What I Said vs What They Heard meme works
What it means
Panel 1 is a clear, sensible thing the speaker said. Panel 2 is how the listener understood it.
Use it when
Something got lost in translation.
Also called
What I said vs what they heard, what i said, what they heard, miscommunication
How popular
Number 76 of the 257 formats in our library, ranked by how often each is captioned and how often business accounts use it.
Its captions
1.What I saidup to 70 characters
2.What they heardup to 70 characters
Every picture here is our own recreation of the format: the same layout, pose and joke, drawn with generic people. None is the original meme photo, and none shows a celebrity or the person from the original. Some formats are drawn with text and shapes only.
What I Said vs What They Heard meme examples for 13 industries
The same format, captioned for each kind of business. Open an industry for its other memes.