• @toynbee
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    725 hours ago

    While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.

    • geekwithsoulOP
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      234 hours ago

      I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself. <sigh>

      The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.

      Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.

      • @toynbee
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        32 hours ago

        I’m old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but didn’t watch TV back then. I also enjoy some modern pop music but, in the vast majority of cases, have never seen the artists. I’m also terminally bad at faces even if I have seen them (I’ve had to ask my wife whether a picture of her was her; she took it well).

        I did actually recognize Alyson Hanigan, since she has a few distinctive expressions and features, but had no idea of the rest.

        All that said to say: thanks for the explanation; me not getting the joke or reference doesn’t mean it was a bad one.

      • @devfuuu
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        Thanks. That helps. I still have no idea who those Chapel and Sabrina are, but I now know they are supposed singers and that this is about they being similar.

        I guess people that don’t know Buffy at least could identify one of them as the one in How I Met your Mother or from American Pie movies and the other having a cameo appearence in Big Bang Theory.

        I agree you are in a weird position knowing something so old and something so new at the same time 😅

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        I think the problem is taking two separate photos from two different events on different days and thinking people would put them together.

        I bet you could find all sorts of separate photos of musicians from different events where one has armor and another has a red cape.

        • @Zorque
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          156 minutes ago

          If explaining a joke makes it not funny, it was never funny in the first place. It was either just referential or based on shock value.

        • geekwithsoulOP
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          42 hours ago

          Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)

    • @devfuuu
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      104 hours ago

      Same. No idea what any of the images are aboot.