The 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad' meme is a satirical commentary on the bizarre tropes found in commercial stock photography. It first gained massive internet traction in 2011 after a blog post on The Hairpin compiled numerous images of women looking inexplicably ecstatic while consuming leafy greens. The meme highlights the disconnect between marketing imagery and real-life dieting, which is rarely that joyful. It is commonly used to poke fun at performative wellness, forced happiness, or to create ironic juxtapositions where the salad represents something mundane or even painful that is being treated with bizarre, unprompted enthusiasm.