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LooseCannon said:
Humour can always be explained. If you can't explain it, then maybe you're not being introspective enough.
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Not nessecarily, memes now include radially blurring pictures of electric drills and it's hilarious. You can poke me, Diesel, and every other teenager in a 50 miles radius with hot irons and you wouldn't get an answer. It'
LooseCannon said:
The other thing to keep in mind is that on Maidenfans, you are going to be challenged. That might be explaining humour, and it might be explaining a point of view. Thinking about what you find funny is an important part of maturing. I remember being 17 and laughing at a bunch of stuff because I was told it was funny.
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Disagree 100%, for my personal self. I laugh it at because I find it funny. So do all people of my generation. Like I said in my previous post, why do we find it funny? I have no idea. And I can't tell you. Neither can Diesel probably. Or anyone else. Nor will anyone outside of this forum. You can't change a generation of culture and you're not us. If you don't like it, I don't mind it in the slightest. But we won't change
 
Black Wizard said:
Over time you will. Just ask @Stardust about how he feels about his posts from 6-7 years ago.
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But my point is, we might change in the future yes, but we're not going to change right now just because you said so. You can smash my teeth out, cut off my fingers and starve me to the point of death, I'll still find it funny because it's what my culture is. I'm sorry, but it is what it is, you've gotta deal with it. I won't and can't change now just at the snap of a finger
 
Nobody is asking you to stop finding crap memes funny, maybe we don't need pages and pages of memespam from a small number of members?

And calling these memes your culture is laughable. Such a grandiose word to describe what is little more than a phase.
 
I can easily dissect the AirPods thing though. Give me till after school ends and I’ll outline my thoughts on it.
 
Ask me how I feel about my posts from when I was 19. Although some of the content is still true, the method of writing alone makes me cringe.

phantomoftheicarus said:
Not nessecarily, memes now include radially blurring pictures of electric drills and it's hilarious. You can poke me, Diesel, and every other teenager in a 50 miles radius with hot irons and you wouldn't get an answer.
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The answer is mimicry. Drills rotate rapidly in a radius. It's funny because the blurring mimics the function, whether or not you've thought that deep into it. Also, the simple fact that you're saying it's funny because every other teenager finds it funny so don't question it already suggests that it's funny because someone is telling you it's funny. That's fine - comedians make a living off being charismatic enough to tell people their jokes are funny.

phantomoftheicarus said:
Disagree 100%, for my personal self. I laugh it at because I find it funny.
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Yes, thank you. That, too, is why I laugh at the many, many things at which I laugh. Nobody has questioned that you should laugh when it's funny. The question has been why do you find it funny? I get that you're a teenager, but an older person (god, I hate that I have to describe myself as that) trying to bridge the gap of understanding isn't questioning your sense of humour. It's trying to understand you, to form more meaningful relationships. If you fail to be that introspective that you can't have a little insight as to what part of the humour appeals to you, then I'm just a little sad for you, and I believe you're missing an opportunity to connect with others.

phantomoftheicarus said:
You can't change a generation of culture and you're not us. If you don't like it, I don't mind it in the slightest.
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False equivalency. We have never asked you to change your humour. We have asked you to do two things: 1) Don't drop 15 memes at once. 2) From time to time, try to explain the humour involved in the memes you drop. I don't believe these are unreasonable requests. Heck, the second one isn't even mandatory.

The first one is.
 
Diesel 11 said:
I can easily dissect the AirPods thing though. Give me till after school ends and I’ll outline my thoughts on it.
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They have airpods in so they lose perception as to whatever's going on around them. Then it blew up and people slapped airpods into all sorts of situations. Some of those are funny. Some of them, I don't think so. Sometimes by the property of transitive humour, things are funny well beyond the original post, especially by those with emotional investment in the original humour. And again, that's fine.
 
LooseCannon said:
Then it blew up and people slapped airpods into all sorts of situations. Some of those are funny. Some of them, I don't think so.
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This basically describes most memes. They start off with a couple of funny examples then quickly tail off as they become repetitive and boring. I never found the Airpods memes funny as we could apply them to wired earphones too.
 
Black Wizard said:
This basically describes most memes. They start off with a couple of funny examples then quickly tail off as they become repetitive and boring. I never found the Airpods memes funny as we could apply them to wired earphones too.
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I believe the extra humour comes from the difficult in noticing airpods. But yes, I suspect if we go back to 1986 we will find people making the same joke about a Walkman.

For the kids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman

(The above joke is funny because it sources outdated technology and suggests that the children might not be aware of it.)
 
I went to write an answer, it was too long and I couldn't put my arguments across easily as I'm writing in class. I still stand by everything that I've said and I acknowledge I've jumped into the deep end quickly. I just think this has escalated quite quickly unnecessarily. Let's just agree to what was proposed last night and just argue over it again in 2 weeks when it will almost certainly happen again
 
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Without wishing to sound pompous, I understand meme culture to be inherently exclusionary - the core concept of "a meme" is difficult to put into words, or to explain to someone without any prior knowledge, as it's been introduced by a generation for whom the laptop screen, not the spoken word, is often the go-to method for telling a joke (for want of a better phrase) and thus view memes from a different starting point when compared to 'the uninitiated' - it'd be a little bit like trying to explain orbital physics to a 15th century flat-Earthist. I recall throwing together a slightly drunken explanation of the Weimar Germany-themed mum-can-I-have-some-money meme I posted a while back (I think it was for Perun's benefit), and came away with the impression that it had been an entirely fruitless exercise.

Re LC's point about explaining humour - obviously it's a case of 'to each his own,' but I try not to intellectualise my consumption of humour (not just memes), as, with a few exceptions, I find it distracts me from the noble art of just having a good laugh. Maybe middle-aged me will have a different view

And yes, I do know what a walkman is
 
Wait, what? Is it Wiz's birthday? Why don't we have a dedicated thread?
Happy birthday, Wizzy, wish you all the female-fronted metal bands and other goodies!

On the topic of memes. All of you who claim that a meme is impossible to explain or that you either get it or you scroll down are very wrong because there are whole sites on the Internet that explain memes, such as https://knowyourmeme.com/, which are doing a really good job of explaining and tracing the history of a meme and its development.
 
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