:.|:;Classic, eternal.
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.
Chuck Testa
Oh no there’s a bear in my bed!
Nope!
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:
:.|:;“The game”
They will find this etched into mountains, and future historians will never know why
:.|:;
Le gasp
You forgot the strikethrough for the four panels
:.|:;I thought it looked wrong when I pasted it but couldn’t figure out why lol
Explaining loss humor is impossible
i always refer people to this documentary.
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.”
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.
Its not “haha!” funny, but rather “aha!” funny.
I think it’s more for fun than funny. Like The Game or the 👌.
Saddam meme too.
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.
dude, I love creepypastas, long long long man AND scp
Count another in these parts of the internet!
At least I know what SCP is. I use it sometimes.
Neither SCP, nor long long man are ringing any bells for me
me neither, I was joking. (scp is command for copying files over ssh)
Long long man https://youtu.be/6-1Ue0FFrHY
Is a Japanese commercial series
Oh, thank you. I didn’t know I needed to see this
Wtf.
SCP Foundation is a fictional (I hope) organisation with the mission to Secure, Contain, Protect various anomalies catalogued with numbers (SCP-#) which are thus also referred to as SCPs. These anomaly descriptions are available on https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
Some of the anomalies are references to other fictional things. If you’re familiar with Slenderman, for instance, you may enjoy SCP-096.
Do you think SCP-049 could “cure” SCP-3008? I can only imagine the types of experiments 049 would come up with in that venture…
Do you mean the victims or the instances of SCP-3008-2? I don’t think the anomaly itself is curable.
Summary for those not familiar: SCP-049 is a plague doctor that seeks to violently “cure” anyone afflicted with some nondescript “Pestilence”.
SCP-3008 is an endless and nearly inescapable IKEA, where the “Staff” (labeled SCP-3008-2) are entirely unresponsive during the day but become violent at night towards anyone still in the store after closing time.
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.
The best memes are buried in 6 layers of irony and meta-references.
And accessed via a proxy of 6 VPNs
What the fuck did you just say about me?
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.
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?
I have been around when the bean meme came and I still don’t know how that meme started.
Nobody does but we all just pretend
Someone stole it from Reddit who stole it from Instagram.
You mean the memes about the small misshapen orbs?
Or the orb-pocalypse
Or the jeans era
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Is this loss?
.:|:;1 2
2 50
1 2 2 50
Ima send this to all the people who love “Roman history”.
Got you bro !roughromanmemes@lemmy.world
THE NUMBERS, MASON
I love it.
Ceiling cat haz contempt for your puny 7 years of historical warez. Leave Brittany alone with your shallow funnies.
… Britney. Britney.
Christ, that meme’s old enough to drop bombs on Yemen.
Ceiling cat encourages your masturbation to Britney.
Leave Brittany alone
OG reference right there.
I pity the fool who’s balls aren’t eaten.
finally, a meme I’m actually too young to understand! someone gimme lore pls
I get to be useful!
Ceiling cat is a reference to possibly the earliest generation of memes. They mostly involved cats. Ceiling cat was a popular one of a cat poking its had down through a hole in a ceiling, captioned “ceiling cat is watching you masturbate” or something similar. The odd grammar/spelling is of the same Era, where these cat memes would be spoken in the “voice” of a cat. The most famous example is “I can haz cheezburger”
Leaving Britney alone is a reference to an early Era of YouTube video, where an actor bawling at the camera ranted about how people were being too mean to Britney Spears, a famous pop star. It was hotly debate whether the contents of the video were genuine or acting. Remember, this was before Snopes, even.
I think that was everything?
Frosted butts
Memes are art.
Same with young people and older Internet stuf and often you can’t even show it because it was some flash application on newgrounds or something like that. NEDM, Bob the ball, Sinnlos im Weltraum, Kimbles Homepage, rotten, tubgirl and whatnot
Weeblsstuff.
newgrounds still exists
As does ruffle, a browser extension that adds an alternative open source runtime for flash in the modern age
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?
