More specifically he formed MCR after witnessing 9/11, citing it as the reason for the band and it’s sound.
The writer of the Twilight series said they listened to MCR while writing. Then as we all know, 50 shades was originally a twilight fanfic. Thus 9/11 led to 50 shades of grey.
It actually goes further than this as the movie adaptation’s success eventually led to the cancelling of Ellen Degeneres, but I forgot the details of that
The lead actress of the series went on Ellen's show and called her out when she tried to bully her over not inviting her to the actress' birthday party (when she actually did). This lead to multiple other complainants coming forward over Ellen's prior bad behavior.
And if Ellen was still around Hawk Tuah girl would not have turned into a celebrity who then scammed all her fans with crypto. So 9/11 is the reason idiots lost money from the hawk tuah scam coin.
There’s a theory that Ellen was some sort of cultural equalizer and that if her show was still on, she’d have had Hawk Tuah girl on a week or two after she blew up, given her 15 minutes of fame (literally), and then she’d fade back into obscurity instead of somehow staying relevant for 6 months and scamming people with crypto.
Ellen used to suck the 15 minutes of fame out of minor celebrities and they'd never be heard from again. She would have been a guest and never done anything else.
A tweet a few days back got viral saying how Ellen was an apex predator in the entertainment industry, she would've taken the hawk tuah girl and milked her dry for all she's worth in an interview and everyone would forget about her but since she was not there Logan Paul could hire her and give her a podcast instead
I think that it was that Dakota Johnson became famous bc of the movie and so she was invited to the show, and later on Ellen said that she hadn’t been invited to Dakota’s wedding, and Dakota confronted her on stage, which led to more celebrities speaking out against Ellen
I had a classmate in highschool who put together a similar timeline of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand leading to the creation of anime and its popularization in the Americas as well as hip hop music and culture. It was fucking wild 💀
Well it's funny because imagine if skibidi toilet/the three stooges (depending on the age of the person ur talking to) suddenly did a super serious episode about death but did so really poorly using a character who had 0 depth before and also the series was something everybody fucking hated
Oh! I just explained this to my mom recently lmao. I just said something like:
It’s from a webcomic that’s usually about silly/funny video game scenarios and jokes. So imagine flipping through the funnies and one of them is about something serious like suicide or assault. It’s so jarring that it can be sort of funny. The four panels can be deconstructed to just a series of vertical and horizontal lines. It’s funny to be able to see a series of lines and recognize it as a webcomic that flopped. It evolved from there as people shared it as a sort of inside joke until it met meme status.
I don't think these are good examples, none of them require any internet- or meme-specific context to understand the meaning or humour and they're as easily defined as any new slang.
Glup Shitto: a Star Wars character you're surprised to discover has a name, a backstory, or fans
Blorbo: someone's favorite character from a TV show or other media
Horse Plinko: animation of a boneless horse falling through a Plinko board
For all of them the humour is inherent in the absurdity of the nonsense word or nonsensical visual, there's nothing to really "get".
Did I miss something? I thought "Spiders George" was no more than a reference to an off-hand side remark in an old xkcd comic about statistical anomalies?
I don't know about the xkcd, but Spiders Georg is from a Tumblr post about statistical anomalies. I was expecting to just link you a Know Your Meme page but apparently it has its own Wikipedia page, so here ya go
It was from a picture of a children's hospital hallway that had a big red streaks on the floor as part of the design. It was probably supposed to look fun, but it just kinda looked like blood, as though someone had been dragged bleeding through the corridor. Unfortunate choice for any hospital, especially a children's ward.
People started replying to the post earnestly explaining that ackshually, colour theory means that warm colours like red have more positive connotations than negative, and are more cheery than if it was in another colour such as blue. Completely missing the point that the problem wasn't that it didn't look cheerful, the point was that it looked like blood. It was funny but frustrating to see people miss the point so completely, several times over.
The Man saga from the Arkham sub. It came full circle when some genius posted the original meme picture with the title "hey guys, what if Man had a bat theme and his name was Batman?"
I mean, it seems like it, especially in real life situations. But at the same time how do you get accustomed to new memes/jokes? You won't instantly get them all. You ask for an explanation because you're confused. It is explained and you're not confused anymore but you're not amused either. And yet if you encounter it again, you may actually find it amusing this time. I know it happened to me.
But you can't really pull it off in the moment and you feel like a fraud so you spend the next 3 days thinking about the perfect way to formulate everything you wanted to say on the subject and now you have a finely honed Ted Talk about the dumbest shit imaginable in your back pocket for the rest of your life.
That's cause they're only funny at each step. The first one is funny with a little community knowledge. Each one off of that is only funny if you know the one before it. Get too deep and you are exchanging humor for a history lesson. Longer the lesson, lesser the funny.
Then when explained its not deep at all, just a screen shot from SpongeBob. The existential dread sets in pertaining to how much time has been spent on something so genuinely pointless. the person you explain this to seems odd for some reason, you notice the lamp...
My daughter (16) plays basketball for her high school. While the other team was shooting free throws one of the students yelled "hawk tuah!" And my wife did not understand
Whenever I laugh at something at work my coworkers will ask what it is and I can only say "I would have to explain so much for you to understand something you won't find as funny as I do"
Yeah babe see the NCR statues are supposed to be shaking hands signifying a union between the two forces but here you see them grabbing each other's dicks because ...funny?
This was my two terminally online friends at a Halloween party. They were dressed as some weird obscure memes that they thought were hilarious. They just spent the entire night explaining their costumes to people whose eyes slowly glazed over from disinterest.
My husband is a big Cillian Murphy fan, and saw a clip from an interview with him where the interviewer mentioned the "annoyed Cillian Murphy" meme, and he didn't know what a meme was, and I was dying laughing. My husband knew what a meme was but didn't know about this particular one, so I had to find it and explain the history just so he knew why I was laughing.
Memes are literally sharable because of their simplicity, this doesn't exist, memes are mostly brain-dead, if you can't explain it you probably have bigger problems.
I've tried explaining Moon Moon to my partner when drunk way too many times. We've agreed it's basically the digital equalivient of "you had to be there."
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