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30 People Who Tried To Show Off As Smart But Ended Up Looking Like Idiots

Nobody likes people who boast about their intelligence – even Stephen Hawking called them losers! However, this doesn’t seem to stop some people from flexing their intelligence in the most unexpected, and often inappropriate, places. But hey – at least the rest of us can have a nice laugh at their expense.

Just in case you love poking fun that these pretentious “intellectuals”, the r/IAmVerySmart subreddit is just the place for you. Its 1.5 million members regularly share cringy examples of people trying to show off their intelligence, and it’s absolutely hilarious. Check out some of these “geniuses” in the gallery below!

#1 Bats Are Birds

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#2 Too Busy To “Ackshually” To Appreciate A Joke, Only To Then Incorrect Them

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#3 Too Smart To Appreciate A Good Play On Words

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#4 Only The Most Intelligent Of People Can Understand This

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#5 He Just Tries To Correct The Already Correct Spelling Lmao

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#6 Absolute Alpha Intellectual. To This Day, I Still Don’t Get It

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#7 Ummm… Yeah, That’s A Big Yikes

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#8 This Meme Isn’t Funny Because It’s Incorrect

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#9 Someone’s Hot Take On The 4th Of July Was Wrong

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#10 I Love Tinder

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#11 Yeah, I Am Very Smart

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#12 Pfff… Scientists Can’t Get Anything Right

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#13 Haha… If You Don’t Get The Joke, You Are An Absolute Moron

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#14 Stop The Assumptions Now

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#15 Nothing Is More Romantic Than Getting Mad Over “Btw”

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#16 You’re Hired!

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#17 Nice Try, Smartie

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#18 He’s Too Smart

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#19 I Don’t Have An Iq Of 136 For Nothing

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#20 I’m Relieved I Thought That Was Possible

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#21 High Level English

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#22 Cultural Appropriation

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#23 This Is My Landlord’s Response To A Simple Text. No Previous Convo, Nothing. What You See Is What You Get

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#24 I Really Hope My Friend Was Being Sarcastic With These Messages

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#25 The Irony Is Absolutely Astounding

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#26 Ah Yes, Speaking A Foreign Language With An Accent Makes You Dumb And Lazy

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#27 His Post History Is Worse

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#28 Say It Louder

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#29 Highly Functional Brain

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#30 A Kid I Used To Go To School With Who Always Brags About His Iq

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