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[–] urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] gon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Classic, eternal.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I usually don't have a hard time explaining referencial humor when it's, like, an older movie that was super popular in my day to a younger person who hasn't seen it; but memes are often inexplicable unless you just know.

Example: ~~:.|:;~~

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

They will find this etched into mountains, and future historians will never know why

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Zenokh@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

No , why , why would you do that ?!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

:.|:;

Le gasp

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You forgot the strikethrough for the four panels ~~:.|:;~~

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[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

I tried explaining to a SO why stappling bread to trees was funny or why "Cat." was peak humor.

I don't think I've ever seen someone questioning my sanity and theirs by association this clearly in any other conversation.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 93 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Especially with niche internet culture like here on Lemmy. Very few people understand the “highly sophisticated” bean memes we’ve got.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"So a guy asking how not to shit for a weekend was funny for a whole month?"

When you put it that way we sound weird!

[–] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, there's actual context behind the bean memes? I've been missing out.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The not shitting guy came before the beans. The beans were mindless. The not shitting guy was an enigma.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The best memes are buried in 6 layers of irony and meta-references.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And accessed via a proxy of 6 VPNs

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

What the fuck did you just say about me?

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Explaining loss humor is impossible

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So like, she had a miscarriage and is crying about it and her boyfriend makes it just in time to see the results and uh yeah it's the funniest thing ever why are you leaving

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

No, wait, it gets better. Get this. Circle jerk about it for a couple of decades and it gets funnier, oh, OK, still going.

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 days ago

i always refer people to this documentary.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I still don't understand how it's funny

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At this point we're like three jokes deep.

The original reaction to the comic was kind of a collective chuckle of "Whahahahat the fuck?" Because the comic was like discount store brand Penny Arcade, irreverent bullshit gamer humor, and then comes the sudden plotline that the girlfriend character has a miscarriage.

Like, Loss itself isn't bad in and of itself; telling the story of the character's journey through the hospital with no dialog, it's competent...but it stood in such contrast to what the comic had been about for so long and the audience just wasn't on board with it that it became a controversy. And Buckley's clap back against it and the following drama made it memetic.

At some point, the imagery became so recognizeable even in the abstract that it became a prank to communicate the idea of the comic in as abstract a form as possible, hence the "Is this Loss" meme. Somewhere between rickrolling and "you just lost the game."

[–] Zenokh@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Damn , Loss-torian over here , tnx for the good read

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

I think it ~~'s~~ (Edit: started out) more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. (Edit: Then from there it) sort of collapsed into its own joke. No one really knows or cares about the context anymore, its become a self-contained meme with no real meaningful connection to Tim, the original comic, or its message now.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh no there's a bear in my bed!

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Honestly, things like that remind me how vast the internet is. There are some things that I think are just ubiquitous that my friend has never heard of before. She had never heard of Creepy Pastas. She had never seen Long Long Man. She didn't know what an SCP was. I was baffled. Made me think about my own digital world, and what sources I may be completely blind to.

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago

so uh this guy once ordered a pizza with no toppings but only beef on the left side and that's why I have a 40-year-old man's face on my shirt with a pizza background.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 19 points 2 days ago
[–] didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Is this loss?

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Ceiling cat haz contempt for your puny 7 years of historical warez. Leave Brittany alone with your shallow funnies.

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[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

Memes are art.

[–] random_user@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There are tiers? I must not be an internet person.

[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the tiers are just that user's headcanon, actually memes are on a spectrum of interdependency

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Me explaining why anything is the way it is at work...

Well you see...before I started they had this hare-brained idea, and I've been trying to fix it every year since.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

yeah...

especially if they don't know what a trans person is

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