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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

SNAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAAAKE OHHHHHHH ITS A SNAAAAKE

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is the comment I came looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Tasso tasso tasso tasso tasso tasso tasso tasso...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I kind of want that as a tattoo...

[–] Sturgist 3 points 2 days ago

It would go great right next to my Trogdor The Burninator tattoo!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This should be what the zoomers, alphas, etcs show us any time one of the milennials talk about "brain rot" or "skibidi toilet".

"Gramps, why don't you explain why you thought this was high art?"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

YTMND should be enough to instantly disprove that brainrot is a new thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

An art critics reaction to Skibidi Toilet. It's in German. He works for a serious German newspaper. He explains several influences that helped shape Skibidi Toilet. Either consciously or subconsciously. It is absolutely nothing new. Absurdist humour has very often been part of art. Often just as a protest against contemporary art and the pretentiousness. At the end he decries that Skibidi Toilet has become too predictable and too mainstream and commercial.

I really love this. It takes it seriously enough but not so seriously to analyse it to death. In short, it takes it as what it is. Without pretending that we or his generation or the generations before him didn't have stupid funny shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

"You don't get it. Weebl Stuff is very deep!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This work revolutionized art for generations. It was instrumental in changing the way people imagined badgers, mushrooms, and snakes. Many modern works of art's influence can be traced back to this monumental piece.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Other influential moments should include jump in my horse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, the amazing work that taught the world that though you may take trips around the universe, do not ask questions you do not want to know the answer to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Museum quality! A prime example of early internet meme culture meeting classical art. Would fetch top upvotes in any respectable meme antiquities auction!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Can I buy as NFC??