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So You're Telling Me There's a Chance meme template

So You're Telling Me There's a Chance is a meme format on WhatiMeme. This template is used when someone hears terrible odds, a soft no, or near-certain bad news and treats the tiny leftover possibility as encouragement. The smile sells delusional optimism: the speaker heard the discouraging part and kept only “not impossible.”

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A man with a straight dark bowl cut and a red, black, and white geometric sweater grins widely, teeth showing, while looking at a red-haired person seen from behind on the right. The background is a soft, out-of-focus indoor room. No text is printed on the image.

How to write this meme

Put the discouraging fact on top and the unjustified hope on the bottom. The top should sound like a no; the bottom should hear a yes. Keep both lines short enough to read in one glance.

Caption zones

  • Top text — States the discouraging news, tiny odds, or soft rejection
  • Bottom text — The hopeful misreading that treats that news as encouragement

Example captions

  • Top text: Recruiter: we're going another direction
  • Bottom text: So the door isn't fully shut

A standard rejection is reread as an open invitation, which is the whole joke of the grin.

  • Top text: Group chat left on read for six hours
  • Bottom text: They're drafting a careful yes

Silence is given the most flattering possible explanation, matching the oblivious smile.

  • Top text: Professor: extra credit is theoretically possible
  • Bottom text: Already planning the A

One hedging word is promoted into a guarantee, so the optimism feels unearned.

  • Top text: Phone: 0.3% battery, may shut down
  • Bottom text: Time for one more video

The warning is acknowledged and then ignored, which makes the confidence funnier.

  • Top text: Odds posted as 1 in 292 million
  • Bottom text: So it isn't zero

The math is stated plainly and then thrown out, which is the cleanest version of the misread.

Common mistakes

  • Using the template for genuinely good news
  • Making both lines equally optimistic
  • Describing the smile instead of writing a misread
  • Writing a long story that will not fit the image
  • Explaining the movie scene in the caption

Also known as

So You're Telling Me · Lloyd Christmas · Dumb and Dumber Chance

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