Is there any particular hate against 'live, laugh, love' that I am missing, besides the phrase just being a bit cheesy?
It's plastered all over painted blocks of wood for $40 at mildly up-scale places (or places trying to appear up scale), along with other "gems" of wisdom.
It's not so much the cornyness, but the posh posturing and sheer stupidity of having vapid expressions on expensive blocks of wood.
vapid expressions
that's it for me. okay, you want to decorate your house, great. but "live laugh love" is really the best you can find?
Vapid, banal expressions have some power. Whatever makes us go through life a little more positively is an asset in my book
It reeks of toxic positivity, its associated with privileged, usually white, usually christian, suburban and boomer wives/moms who get to sit around at home all day, in a home, whilst doing nothing, who often admonish their own children for not being positive and grateful enough, and also invent tons of problems about meaningless bs, while said children have worked far harder than they have, and are more educated than them, but will likely never own a home.
Every time I see the phrase "toxic positivity" my first instinct to contest it, because my first experiences with the phrase were a misapplication (that being positive is somehow toxic,) but so far on Lemmy, I've only seen it used in ways that make sense (the toxic expectation that others will be exclusively positive.)
There is a trend of home decorating which prominently involves plastering one's home with signage written in cursive fonts, with a prominent one reading "Live, Laugh, Love." Other common ones are "Gather" or "Coffee" etc. It's a symptom of stage IV basic bitchery and/or karenism.
See also Rae Dunn ceramics, distressed chalk paint, and beige.
Enjoy Every Moment
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It's the poster child of vapid consumerism. Pseudo-deep "words of wisdom" often bought by the most shallow people you can think of.
It's the battle cry of the suburban Karen, the mantra of the soccer mom.
Often combined with the consumption of rigorous amounts of wine and sings declaring how hilarious this socially accepted alcoholism is.
you could add 'Live Laugh Love' text onto any photo in the news of the last few years, and let me know how hilariously tone deaf it feels.
Not tone deaf, just... doesn't really make sense in context.
There was a family that lived next to my parents that lost their house in the 08 crash because they were sold a shitty loan. They were the sweetest people. I happened to be visiting when they had a huge blowout family party on their last day there. I was hoping it was using the money that was supposed to go to the banks. They were the epitome of what I think the original intent was of that saying. The world sucks, fr, but you have to live anyway. It's not toxic positivity if you live it. That's my take anyway.
It's wine-mom boomer-humor. It's not particularly funny, the same vein as "i hate my wife" "jokes"
It's the go to stereotypical phrase for an older white woman to pretend she's spiritually enlightened when she's really a Karen
Cross stitch. There's an element of mysogyny too, as this is statement vapid women make, so its safer for men to laugh at than the vapid shit we say
LIVE
LAUGH
CONSUME
No live, no laugh. Only consume.
Look through the window and witness a thread
Nan, if the spider has the intelligence of an human it supposed to draw a dick .
This comic makes me want to stay alive, giggle, and have deep amorous feelings.
*splat*
Sploosh
I was expecting "Send nudes"
Bobs
Avrana Kern dislikes this
"Where are my orangutans?"
I thought the same :-).
Tough, the books make quite the point that it is not "human" intellegence they have.
I'd do the same tbh
