this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
371 points (87.9% liked)

memes

13282 readers
4623 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 24 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can you strip some more pixels off? I can still read the words and make out what the picture is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Help. I can't make out the picture.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it's someone's hand writing on a burning piece of paper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Or a crazy idea, just post the text as text.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that's some incel bullshit

[–] skeptomatic 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nah, that's an old joke. Pretty funny. I wanna say Rodney Dangerfield came up with it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, because comedians born literally over a hundred years ago can't promote incel shit 🙄.

[–] skeptomatic 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. On account of he's dead. He can no longer promote anything, that's how death works.
And "incel" didn't exist yet. Not getting laid back then was due to what was known as, "being ugly and having a shitty personality".
Same as today, just not rebranded into a catchy portmanteau.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's like saying someone can't be a homosexual in ancient Rome because the word didn't exist yet.

Like, in an extremely pedantic way you could say that, but it doesn't reflect what was actually happening.

[–] skeptomatic 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

🫤 I didn't say anybody "can't be" anything at all.
I said it was a funny old joke. Then I wisecracked incels are ugly people with shitty personalities. If anything, that insensitivity should be what any reply is about.
Are..are you in the same conversation as me?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You didn't say, "can't be", thats why I said it's like you said that.

We didnt call it, "incel" 100 years ago when someone acted like an incel. If someone was making jokes and promoting a mindset at the time that would now be labeled "incel", then we can retroactively say the ideology they promoted fits our current label.

I am in the same conversation, and I hear what you're saying. I don't think you sincerely understood what I was saying the first time.

[–] skeptomatic 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I don't think Rodney Dangerfield, we're he alive today, would accept the "incel" brand so easily. His comedy and attitude are different. That's why it doesn't deserve an "incel bullshit" comment. It's simply a funny self-depricating type joke..
But what do I know.. maybe it wasn't even Rodney Dangerfield who came up with the joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's very fair. I wouldn't go so far as to call someone an incel just because they said one thing that an incel may also say. Were he alive today I imagine he'd find incels good material for jokes.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

Because culture hasn't changed at all since then. Great point

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The word "incel" might not have been coined yet, but at this point, "incel" basically just describes "man who blames women for his inability to attract them", and that's definitely nothing new

[–] skeptomatic 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This joke doesn't blame a woman for his inability to attract, it implies he's ugly and women are attracted to money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That is literally placing the blame on the woman

"If she weren't such a gold digger, she'd want me"

The whole, "they want the wrong thing" is incredibly common in incels.

[–] skeptomatic 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol, implying women are attracted to money is not a stereotype that only an incel can attribute. Comedy often pokes fun at stereotypes, of course without trying to offend.
I don't think the joke is ".. literally placing the blame .."
The joke is more light-hearted than outright "blame".
"Incel" is a modern word with negative connotation, that I don't think need be retroactively applied to all things related to rejection or attraction from a woman.
It ruins the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

When the joke is "women be gold diggin'", the joke was ruined from the start

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Could it be that women don't like me because I am misogynistic, don't look after my personal hygiene and appearance, have no manners, and have no desire to improve my overall character?

Noooo it must be their primitive female minds 🤪

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Dunno if it deserves that picture

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

What meme is this?