:.|:;Classic, eternal.
Especially with niche internet culture like here on Lemmy. Very few people understand the “highly sophisticated” bean memes we’ve got.
“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!
Wait, there’s actual context behind the bean memes? I’ve been missing out.
The not shitting guy came before the beans. The beans were mindless. The not shitting guy was an enigma.
Enigma? You mean enema?
No, enemas do the opposite of that
but ideally you would start something like that by clearing any buffer, you know?
Or the orb-pocalypse
You mean the memes about the small misshapen orbs?
I have been around when the bean meme came and I still don’t know how that meme started.
Someone stole it from Reddit who stole it from Instagram.
Nobody does but we all just pretend
2meirl4meirl
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.
My career has been long enough that in hindsight I’ve been the one with the harebrained idea and I swear it was a good idea at the time!
At the time it was the best way to duct tape over someone else’s long-forgotten but recently uncovered cut corner.
And so the cycle continues.
It’s the circle of life and it moves us all.
Aha! We’ve cut so many corners it’s rounded into a circle!
Did we win or lose?
This is the bad thing about finding a good employer…the type you feel okay staying at a long time because they treat you well, the pay is reasonable and the benefits are great.
That’s where I’m at now, and I’m starting to get bit in the ass by my own harebrained ideas, too.
This applies to the different social medias too. Like i need a mini briefer before I can understand an Instagram meme
You sonofabitch, I’m in.
So there’s this kid and it’s about a heist parody…wait let me start over. Theres this show with a smart old guy and a kid, kinda like back to the future, but like…
The best memes are buried in 6 layers of irony and meta-references.
Got some reference material?
where saddam
Is this loss?
I consider Loss to be common knowledge at this point
Which is why it’s a great meme to bury in six layers of irony and meta-references.
And accessed via a proxy of 6 VPNs
What the fuck did you just say about me?
I often laugh about things that are not always funny haha but sometimes horrible nonsense. So now when I laugh about it, my wife gives me the “do I want to know or not” look and I have an escape route to tell her its not really something funny or something she wouldn’t think is funny
not an internet person
This phrase confuses me.
I think they mean not clinically online.
Me being clinically online:
Chronically. But clinically works too.
I’m chronically online to a sub-clinical degree. I have a friend who is terminally online.
Of course it is, I knew I couldn’t find the right word but as I’m getting older I don’t have the patience to try and find the right one.
Does clinically work just as well though?
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THE NUMBERS, MASON
I love it.
Ima send this to all the people who love “Roman history”.
Got you bro !roughromanmemes@lemmy.world
Memes are art.
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Is this loss?
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There are tiers? I must not be an internet person.
the tiers are just that user’s headcanon, actually memes are on a spectrum of interdependency
memes are on a spectrum
Autistic memes are lit tho
you’re not a person?
Explaining loss humor is impossible
Saddam meme too.
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
At least the ඞmongus generation understands the fun in hiding references everywhere.
No, wait, it gets better. Get this. Circle jerk about it for a couple of decades and it gets funnier, oh, OK, still going.
I still don’t understand how it’s funny
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.”
Its not “haha!” funny, but rather “aha!” funny.
I think it’s more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.
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.I think it’s more about how people on the internet are terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed.
I think the joke is terrible people being terrible to terrible people when a genuinely terrible thing happens in their lives.
As long as everyone is terrible, I’m in.
if only there were more staggeringly interesting queer women with red/green colorblindness who held this opinion.
That seems oddly specific.
i always refer people to this documentary.
yeah…
especially if they don’t know what a trans person is
Who doesn’t know what a trans person is?
You’d be surprised lol
One of the funniest that shows just how little people know is this, a conversation I heard from someone like a month ago: “[name] is nonbinary, she uses they/them pronouns right?”
for context this is a Gen z person, not even a retired grandma who doesn’t go around queer people at all, there was a group of really fruity folk next to them about dieing for their whole conversationdies from cringe
“his pronouns are they/them” type energy
