Violins are traditional instruments of cinematic mourning, either as background melody or very famously used literally in Titanic where the orchestra kept playing right up until the ship went down (historically accurate).
Spongebob Squarepants later had a one-off gag where Mr. Krabs wanted to express insincere mourning, so he pulled out a finger-size violin and said something to the effect of “Oh boo hoo. Let me play you a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin”
Of course, being Spongebob Squarepants, the gag was executed so flawlessly that it was immediately seamlessly integrated into internet culture.
Turns out the internet has tons of people like them. People who state things authoritatively but are actually just saying things without doing any verification or checking.
Violins are traditional instruments of cinematic mourning, either as background melody or very famously used literally in Titanic where the orchestra kept playing right up until the ship went down (historically accurate).
Spongebob Squarepants later had a one-off gag where Mr. Krabs wanted to express insincere mourning, so he pulled out a finger-size violin and said something to the effect of “Oh boo hoo. Let me play you a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin”
Of course, being Spongebob Squarepants, the gag was executed so flawlessly that it was immediately seamlessly integrated into internet culture.
It predates SpongeBob by quite a bit.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-sarcastic-worlds-smallest-violin
I was doing the world’s smallest violin thing in the early eighties as a kid…
the violin player that stayed to play was named Wallace Hartley and he was awesome.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Hartley
his (emotionally broken, never remarried )fiance eventually received his recovered violin and it later sold for 1.8m.
he’s now a sort of town hero from where he was from.
I think MASH put it in popular culture a long time earlier
Damn, thanks for the exhaustive explaination. The internet needs more people like you
Is inaccurate tho
Oh, damn
Turns out the internet has tons of people like them. People who state things authoritatively but are actually just saying things without doing any verification or checking.
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