Explaining loss humor is impossible
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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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
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.
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"
No , why , why would you do that ?!
You forgot the strikethrough for the four panels ~~:.|:;~~
I thought it looked wrong when I pasted it but couldn't figure out why lol
:.|:;
Le gasp
Enlighten me. Is it loss?
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!
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.
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
newgrounds still exists
As does ruffle, a browser extension that adds an alternative open source runtime for flash in the modern age
The best memes are buried in 6 layers of irony and meta-references.
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.
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.
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