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Explaining memes to relatives - A cry for help.
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They have to be slightly shitlordy themselves, or else they won't get it at all. So then you just say "It's just something silly I found online" and change the subject.
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Is your avatar the stupid robot dog from Doctor Who? It always annoyed me how dumb it looked.
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You can’t, most boomers aren’t accustomed to the modern internet so memes won’t normally mean a thing to them.
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Sometimes nosy relatives want to know why you spend 19 hours a day on the internet, and what you're doing. When people ask me that question, I just talk about the vast quantities of porn I consume. It's much less embarrassing than explaining the Kiwi Farms.
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I have a middle-aged relative who's trying to explain to my brother how to be more of a chad and how to avoid stacies. She does not know what either of those terms mean, and she did this earlier yesterday during a lengthy family dinner. Hence the subtitle
It is but I don't see how that's relevant
he's a cute fella
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A lot of memes rely on you having a similar enough experience with others that they'll get what you are referencing or discussing with it. If they're not in a similar age range they'll likely struggle to get the weird shit.
Matt Damon
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A while back, I accidentally used the word "pozzed" while talking about woke companies with my mom. It was quite an adventure explaining that one to her in the most PG manner I could manage.
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I wouldn't bother. It's not worth revealing the online parts of your personality to a family member, no matter how good your intentions are. Let her figure it out on her own... if she ever does. She doesn't need to know the lore behind those neologisms or attain their true meaning.
I guess it is pretty cute, I just hadn't thought of Doctor Who in a while. I get that its design is outdated because it's from the 1970s, but it honestly looks like a novel robot vacuum cleaner.
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this sounds hilarious, please tell us how she used the terms and what she said to the kid
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I was quoting pretty literally. "you should be more of a chad", etc
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Basically just saying 'have you considered being appealing and fuckable?' when trying to give a pep-talk. They meant well. I hope.
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The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
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She did, but the rest of the family is now concerned and confused. Except for my brother who's been laughing his ass off for the entire day.
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Simple.
"You know how when you tell a story or a joke and nobody laughs, even after you explain it? The follow up is usually "you had to be there", because understanding a joke isn't the same as getting a joke. Memes are like that, but on a grand scale. Many internet memes are four, five, or even more layers of "you had to be there" deep. And that's kind of the point. People share memes to connect, and if someone gets your meme that means you get each other, at least a little bit. The harder the meme is to get, the more narrow and specific the humor, the stronger the spark of connection is when someone does get it."
"You know how when you tell a story or a joke and nobody laughs, even after you explain it? The follow up is usually "you had to be there", because understanding a joke isn't the same as getting a joke. Memes are like that, but on a grand scale. Many internet memes are four, five, or even more layers of "you had to be there" deep. And that's kind of the point. People share memes to connect, and if someone gets your meme that means you get each other, at least a little bit. The harder the meme is to get, the more narrow and specific the humor, the stronger the spark of connection is when someone does get it."
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A meme is an in-joke with strangers. That's all. That's how I explain it to oldsters. They had memes in their own day (kilroy was here, signing "Walter Shumate" as your name on things), they can understand the concept.
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I was actually a moment from writing about the Kilroy Was Here 'meme' so you beat me to it. If that doesn't work can also try the old Budweiser Frog commercials. Or hell the Head-On commercial too.