:.|:;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!
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.
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.
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.
Saddam meme too.
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?
Is this loss?
Especially with niche internet culture like here on Lemmy. Very few people understand the “highly sophisticated” bean memes we’ve got.
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?
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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
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 conversation
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
Memes are art.
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?
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!
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.
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
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.....
2meirl4meirl
This is how my wife views me i think
This applies to the different social medias too. Like i need a mini briefer before I can understand an Instagram meme
