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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.
I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself.
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.
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.
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 😅
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.
I understood SNL
Explanation is the death of comedy.
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.
Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)
Same. No idea what any of the images are aboot.
God damn I always forget how hot that redhead is.
Is this a meme?
It is if you’re old enough to know who the pic is actually of, or young enough to know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter actually are?
Ugh... I'm in that first category. I have no idea who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are.
I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of "man those people are constantly in the news."
Don't stop. I love these layered generational memes.
Like "here's a picture of Skibibi toilet recreating the famous scene in I love Lucy"
It would have to be the scene with the chocolates right?
I think you need an "and" there where you used an "or", but I guess I'm in neither category.
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