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Lets play a game.
What do all these things have in common?

Onions, 7 layer bean dip, photoshop™ files, your uncle wearing 3 lightweight sweaters, dual layer dvds, the earth, baklava, cake, discord, parking structures and ogres.

A: Balloons
B: Nitrogen
C: The inevitable death of the universe
D: Layers

TIMES UP
YOU'RE WRONG

It's layers
Person 1: Damn, shrek has all these sexy layers.
Person 2: Wtf are you talking about?
Layers by JewManBoy May 29, 2018
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Hell ya bro, I was up in them layers!
Layers by Gary Oak_selina April 13, 2011
if one has layers it means that person has a dirty mind. You can have more layers than somebody...meaning you have a dirtier mind or in some cases are more pervvy.
stop looking at my boobs! you have so many layers it's not true!
layers by shuup April 23, 2006

Layers of Irony 

A term used in the current metamodernistic/internet era. Shitposting was originally "posting something bad." Literally a shitty post. Then, people started doing it ironically then, people started doing ironic shitposting ironically, and that's where things start to get weird. You're making fun of something that's making fun of something else, so it gradually became more and more absurd. The idea is it gets more absurd the more "ironic" you get, because if X makes fun of Y in an absurd way, you need to be even more absurd to make fun of X. Hence, tiers.
Reddit User: What's a good example of higher layers of irony?
Reddit Expert: For a good example of "higher levels" of irony. Above the "ironic shitposting level", there's the level where people will mock the concept of "ironic shitposting" as a childish waste of time by being more absurd or sort of "anti-circlejerking". Above this level, it begins to wrap around to mirror legitimate spam and shitposting, but framed in a way that is intentionally obvious and absurd.
Reddit Expert 2: The humour here comes from the absurdity of taking a post about decorating cakes, for example, and turning it into a post railing against white privilege. There can also be a lot of humour from the reactions of people who aren't in on the joke. Beyond this level, you have posts like the image from the OP. Posts which acknowledge the absurdity of everything I've just written by referencing the concept of irony and becoming totally non-nonsensical themselves, attempting to "out-absurd" even the most ironic forms of humour.
Layers of Irony by Jack3t818 May 19, 2017

Layers of Irony 

Unironic: I am not gay

Ironic: I aM gAy *while clearly not gay*

Post ironic: man bro, you’re looking hot *taken sarcastically or said sarcastically, but is actually gay*

Meta ironic: *kisses homie and insists it isn’t gay. No one knows if he’s gay or not*

Hyper ironic: *becomes gay, but does so ironically*
Person 1: “bro that’s poggers”
Person 2: “did you just seriously say that?”
Person 1: “nah dude I’m just using layers of irony. I used it so ironically that I use it seriously, but it’s still ironic”
Layers of Irony by JohnTrolltrane January 19, 2022

onions have layers 

ONIONS HAVE LAYERS WE NEED NEED LAYERS SHREK WOULD BE PROUD
Onions have LAYERS!!!!

trident layers 

A new rising form of currency, It currently presides over the Dollar, Pound, and Euro. It is the first edible currency (not including the former German currency of Marks, that happened to be made of sausage and pretzels)
Screw You! I want to be paid in Trident Layers!
trident layers by Dr.Faust December 20, 2009
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