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I got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?

by HollywoodZero 5y ago

sergiotapia 5y ago
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- dang 5y ago
  Please don't be a jerk on HN. Edit: you have a long history of breaking the site guidelines. We've asked you many times to stop, but you've continued. You did it here just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800. If you don't stop this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop this. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
jchw 5y ago
It’s basically a giant inside joke. Explaining it won’t do any good, not helped by the fact that in a lot of cases with ironic and absurdist humor, it’s not really funny on its own premise. The meme basically took the phrase “Don’t lecture me with your thirty dollar haircut” and stuck it next to a bunch of emoji. For some reason, this transformed into videos where the emoji was interpreted as memetic audio clips. In some cases, I’ll admit the joke just boils down to “loud stupid noise funny.” But the reason why people find it funny, is literally because they know it’s not. You’ll even see them saying things like, “I know this isn’t funny, but I can’t stop laughing.” If anyone understands enough psychology to explain WTF is going on here, I’d love to know. On the other hand, the meme, which is admittedly not really funny on its own, spiraled into a fairly neat website where you can actually sequence music, sort of like Mario Paint. I think that’s it’s neat regardless of what you think of the humor that lead to it.
- klohto 5y ago
  - dang 5y ago
    Please don't be a jerk on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
      That doesn't look like a jerk comment
      - dang 5y ago
        I read it as insulting someone's comment, which is a way of insulting the commenter.
        klohto 5y ago
        50/50, I wasn’t honestly sure but it was snarky.
        jchw 5y ago
        No offense taken, but it was not copypasta. It’d be oddly specific to be copypasta.
- financetechbro 5y ago
  All the psychology u need to understand is that it’s a __meme__
deleted 5y ago
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Dylan16807 5y ago
The original line, the meme after that, or this website? The line is silly and strongly acted, I think it's easy to see why it's funny. Then sharing it around and tossing some emojis and sound effects on isn't a huge improvement but whatever it's entertaining to throw some images and sounds onto things. And it should be easy to see why this website is popular just as a music tool, with the line not very important and largely there to put things in a silly mood. Some people will find it funny and some won't, but there doesn't need to be anything funny about the website for it to be fun.
dudeinjapan 5y ago
It is quaint and surprising, and therefore some Earthlings find it humorous.

I got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?

sergiotapia 5y ago

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dang 5y ago
Please don't be a jerk on HN. Edit: you have a long history of breaking the site guidelines. We've asked you many times to stop, but you've continued. You did it here just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096800. If you don't stop this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please stop this. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

jchw 5y ago

It’s basically a giant inside joke. Explaining it won’t do any good, not helped by the fact that in a lot of cases with ironic and absurdist humor, it’s not really funny on its own premise. The meme basically took the phrase “Don’t lecture me with your thirty dollar haircut” and stuck it next to a bunch of emoji. For some reason, this transformed into videos where the emoji was interpreted as memetic audio clips. In some cases, I’ll admit the joke just boils down to “loud stupid noise funny.” But the reason why people find it funny, is literally because they know it’s not. You’ll even see them saying things like, “I know this isn’t funny, but I can’t stop laughing.” If anyone understands enough psychology to explain WTF is going on here, I’d love to know. On the other hand, the meme, which is admittedly not really funny on its own, spiraled into a fairly neat website where you can actually sequence music, sort of like Mario Paint. I think that’s it’s neat regardless of what you think of the humor that lead to it.

klohto 5y ago
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't be a jerk on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
    That doesn't look like a jerk comment
    - dang 5y ago
      I read it as insulting someone's comment, which is a way of insulting the commenter.
      - klohto 5y ago
        50/50, I wasn’t honestly sure but it was snarky.
        jchw 5y ago
        No offense taken, but it was not copypasta. It’d be oddly specific to be copypasta.
financetechbro 5y ago
All the psychology u need to understand is that it’s a __meme__

deleted 5y ago

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Dylan16807 5y ago

The original line, the meme after that, or this website? The line is silly and strongly acted, I think it's easy to see why it's funny. Then sharing it around and tossing some emojis and sound effects on isn't a huge improvement but whatever it's entertaining to throw some images and sounds onto things. And it should be easy to see why this website is popular just as a music tool, with the line not very important and largely there to put things in a silly mood. Some people will find it funny and some won't, but there doesn't need to be anything funny about the website for it to be fun.

dudeinjapan 5y ago

It is quaint and surprising, and therefore some Earthlings find it humorous.