• @[email protected]
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    8010 months ago

    I still don’t really get how the “no one” tag works.

    This meme works perfectly fine without “no one” preceding it.

    Most “no one” memes do.

    Why add the no one in front?

    Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

    Thank you for your time

    • @[email protected]
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      3610 months ago

      Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

      Kinda, as if the idea the meme talks about came out of nowhere, unrequested

    • @[email protected]
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      1010 months ago

      I hate it as much as I hate punchline images that tell you how to feel about it.

      DESTRUCTION 100

      (Face of a meme guy)

    • @technojamin
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      It’s a riff on the meme formats that go:

      My cashier: …

      Me: …

      “No one:” represents something coming out of the blue, completely unprompted. It’s definitely getting overused, but that’s just an inevitable part of the lifecycle of a meme.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t mind it being used if it makes sense, but it seems unnecessary most of the time, drawing attention away from the meme.

        I’d also like to point out that almost every answer about the no one memes describes a different reasoning for what it is used.

        This implies its unnecessary quality. Subjective, important placeholder.

        • @technojamin
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          410 months ago

          I agree that it usually doesn’t add anything to the meme, especially nowadays. It’s a pretty low-effort template.

          I like Know Your Meme’s description:

          a phrasal template used to mock people who strive to attract attention and tend to provide unsolicited opinions, as well as for observational humor.

          I think its original usage in mocking attention seeking was funnier. It’s basically generalized into any observational humor though, which is when it becomes unnecessary.

          • @[email protected]
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            410 months ago

            That makes sense to me where it would work. The memer would have to have an accurate sense of humor instead of just scatter shooting the phrase all over the place, but that’s difficult, so we end up with these. Thanks

    • @[email protected]
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      610 months ago

      THANK YOU! It has become a pet peeve of mine. I think it’s supposed to reference “no one asked”. But if that’s the case, the meme should be

      Nobody: “Hey I’d really like every music video to be shot with a fish-eye lens”.

      or

      Everyone:

      It doesn’t make sense.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        I think this is the first explanation I found searching, “no one asked”, but yea, if that’s correct, it is not super clear and is often redundant

    • Mike
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      410 months ago

      Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

      Correct.

    • @agissilver
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      1910 months ago

      MTV is 42. Somehow though the 70s were only 30 years ago. These facts are simultaneously true.

    • @ExfilBravo
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      1210 months ago

      or was is Missy Elliot? We went a little H.A.M. on the fish eye lens back then.

      • @Desistance
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        910 months ago

        Busta Rhymes was the biggest offender of fisheye.

        • @akaxaka
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          210 months ago

          Courtesy of Hype Williams (Harold Williams) the director of all these music videos.

          From wikipedia:

          Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes’ “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check”, the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy wit It”, MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC’s “No Scrubs”, and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West’s “Gold Digger”.[4]

      • @MBZzZzZzZz
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        410 months ago

        Well, people did get their freak on.

    • pingveno
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      1110 months ago

      Listening to how that video was made was awesome. It’s so simple and obvious when it’s explained to you, even if it’s not particularly obvious on its face.

      • @MBZzZzZzZz
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        110 months ago

        Oh, it feels just like it should.

      • @pete_the_cat
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        310 months ago

        I like my sugar with coffee and cream.

  • @Glowstick
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    2110 months ago

    Actually it was more like this -

    Everyone: give us freakin cool looking videos

    Video industry: *delivers*

  • @Phanlix
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    1210 months ago

    I really miss old school MTV though. I feel like, for a time, bands were doing some crazy music videos that were as much works of art as the music itself.

    • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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      310 months ago

      I do too. I remember for a short period, you’d go over to anyone’s house and they’d just have MTV on a TV somewhere playing video after video.

      It was immensely popular, and it was a fun way to passively see a bunch of artists without any effort.

      • UltraMagnus0001
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        210 months ago

        I think missy actually started it first and the Puffy s videos was similar

  • tygerprints
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    710 months ago

    Futuristic cheese graters will be anti-gravity, and so will toasters. You’ll really have a hard time keeping your breakfast and lunch down in the world of the future.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      110 months ago

      Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today.

      • credit crazy
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        210 months ago

        In the year 2525 you won’t need no wife. You can pick you sons, pick your daughters to from the bottom of a long glass tube.

  • Flying Squid
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    610 months ago

    “Damn it, Jerry. We bought this computer and we sure as hell are going to use it!”

  • modifier
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    510 months ago

    Surely that’s just a present-day cheerleader with a cartoon character stuck in it.