The 'Picture Unrelated' meme is a staple of early internet forums and imageboards like 4chan and Something Awful. It serves as a humorous disclaimer when a user wants to share a text-based story, an opinion, or a 'copypasta' but the platform requires an image attachment to post. By adding the phrase 'Picture Unrelated,' the poster acknowledges the total lack of connection between the visual content and the written narrative, often pairing profound or disturbing stories with absurdly mundane, cute, or bizarre images. This trope has evolved into its own comedic subgenre, where the humor relies entirely on the jarring dissonance between the visual and the text.