based vs cringe (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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our blessed based their barbarous cringe our glorious meme culture their wicked brainrot our great image macros their primitive slop posting our noble neologisms their backward meaningless slang our heroic funny number "69" their brutish funny number "67"

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[–] 98 points 9 months ago

Another case for the jury

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    As a dad who tries to connect with his kids, I made a 67 reference last week. Their response: "Oh Dad, 67 is old now." Kids these days can't even commit to the bit. 🀣

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.

    There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.

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  • [–] 74 points 9 months ago (29 children)

    At least 69 is representative of something. 67 is literally meaningless.

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  • [–] 68 points 9 months ago*

    XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that's made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own

    Today's 67 is 1899's 23

    From the XKCD alt text:

    In 1899, people were walking around shouting `23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trving to figure out what it meant.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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    Technically speaking, 69 sucks.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    A better comparison would be our 21

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  • [+] -19 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    It's literally not, you just don't know what it means.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Carefully observe how the above argument lacks any supporting argument or information.

    Curious.

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  • [+] -11 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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    When asked by Complex[7] about the meaning of the numbers, Skrilla said, "Everybody else got their own different meaning. But for me, it's just 'negative to positive.' It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person."

    In a comment to the Wall Street Journal[11] from the same timeframe, he also said, "I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to … That’s why everybody keeps saying it."

    So it's a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.

    Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don't know the meaning. At this point, it's more than anything a cultural signifier which isn't a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I feel so seen! :-P

    BTW, 42.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Gentlemen, there's a solution here you are not seeing . . . 68!

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    Dont get me started on skibidi toilet!

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Our glorious Gmod videos

    Their horrible SFM animations

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride

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  • [+] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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    I love the fact that I never turned into this guy that hates the new stuff. I wasn't hating fidget spinners when everybody hated them, I liked Fortnite, I think skibidi toilet is fun and such. But just as I didn't like some trends when I was young myself (e.g. I never wanted to join the Gangnam style dance), I do find it disappointing that 67 is so popular, because I loved the fact that 69 is funny because of sex.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Atleast 69 had a context. 67 literally was a kid spurting out a random number.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I don't know what "based" means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's the opposite of "cringe"

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based

    (Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.

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    TBF though, the Slop Posting isn't comparable at all. Slop is actual negative value given form.

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    There is a point where random noises become a song. Disposability of culture is, to my eye, a novelty that hasn’t yet reached the point of becoming a song. It’s just random noises, and I want to silence them with a heavy pipe to the throat

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  • [+] -10 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Could say the same for:

    Politics.

    Religion.

    Ethnic groups.

    Sport teams.

    Cola preference.

    Cutting some bits off your genitals or not.

    Operaring systems.

    Humans are a hoot, huh?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Politics at its root is ideals about how to structure society though. It does, however, devolve into a team sports mentality in a lot of cases, which is I think what you're getting at.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    Wait, who the hell is pro genital mutilation!?

    ... Oh wait, Jews do circumcision... siiiiigghhhh

    (I'm also aware some areas of India/middle east do FGM too, but I don't remember if it's for anything close to religous reasons)

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Circumcision happens all over. It's popular in the US, Africa, and Middle east especially.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

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