And I was there to remember, like the fappening from a platform that should not be named

I agree. I miss when the internet was fun and I enjoy making content that is just goofy for the sake of being goofy so others can have little moments of joy too.

It feels like the opposite to me, it's just slapping topical words on known meme templates with no creativity in it and I'm sure genAI would be capable of making this stuff with some tinkering...

... unless they're already doing it.

Yes, and so am I, and we just need to wait it out until the next indecipherable meme trend starts and hopefully we can catch it's origins so we know wtf is going on, but probably not and it'll just be the same thing with different words.

You don't hate Paul Dano, you hate his character, and that's because he did such a great job. If you don't think Paul Dano can act, then you're not familiar with his other films. Go watch a few others, then come back to TWBB. You'll see why so many people like him.

The only part I didn't like in There Will Be Blood was Paul Dano playing two brothers, but setting it up so you can't say that the main character isn't pretending to be the brother that doesn't exist. Like, they should've been more explicit about there being two brothers. That make me question the entire relationship between him and Daniel Day Lewis' character.