It's a weird gen Z thing. The original point of the "no one" meme was to make jokes about people responding to things nobody has ever said. Subverting the punchline is a way to increase humor because it's not expected. Misusing the meme phrase entirely sets you up to think the meme is going in a direction you're familiar with only to be a completely different meme, thus increasing the humor. However the "no one" meme has been used this way so often that misusing it became the default use of it instead. Now the humor from it comes from the opposite, in that it's basically a universal buildup that works for any joke. More or less it's a beat phrase that sets up a brief moment of suspense for the punchline, similar to how comics will have dialogueless beat panels to increase the humor of the punchline.
Gen Z grew up with this kind of humor, which is why they think it's so much funnier than older people do. Equally, gen alpha will likely have completely different humor gen Z doesn't understand.
I understand that it's somehow being used incorrectly, but I'm not sure I understand that a correct usage of it would be.
Isx the joke here supposed to be "nobody has ever said girl's hands are cold"?
Because that's a common trope in TV shows, novels, regular conversation.
If the joke is that girl's hands are cold, why would you need "no one", and if the joke is that nobody would talk about girls hands being cold, then clearly that's incorrect.
I appreciate the long explanation, I just do not understand it yet and I've received so many different explanations of what "no one" is supposed to mean without getting any closer to what the joke is.
And I completely agree that whatever the original meaning was is essentially lost in people just put the phrase "no one" in front of any image pretending it is a setup to a joke that it is not.
That's why I crop these images, because there doesn't seem to be anything semantically or comedically gained from "no one".
Put simply it isn't a joke. It's evolved to the point where it basically means "prepare yourself, a joke's coming."
It's just a meme that got so overused that it doesn't mean anything anymore.
Think of it like how 90% of knock knock jokes don't need the setup of answering the door, it's just a familiar setup. Why is a banana knocking on the door? Why does there need to be a door in the setup of interrupting cow? That's what "no one" means to younger people. It's a familiar way to set up the joke.
Edit: I forgot to mention, correct usage would be something like:
Nobody:
Me: A trillion lions could totally defeat the sun.
The joke being nobody asked, nobody cares, and I said it anyway.
Okay, thank you for the explanation, I think I understand the structure now.
It's a non-sequitir with an extra step, and despite the setup only making sense preceding non-sequitirs, the setup is used constantly with things people commonly talk about, are obviously popular or easy to get.
I think the knock knock setup makes sense because it very clearly sets the audience in a framework, encouraging you to inquire about the situation that you interrupt by subverting expectations via a punchline.
The no one line seems more like gilding a lily, a hat on a hat, superfluous.
It doesn't add much to a joke or non-sequitur, it's just pointing out that this thing from left field is from left field, while of course if the statement was from left field then you wouldn't need to explain that it was from left field.
Weird.
I understand it better now, and I appreciate your explanation, but I'll keep cropping these as I see them.
The no one line feels too much like a kindergartener rubbing their hands together like "I have a joke for you! My joke is a statement!"
Feel free. The whole "no one" thing has gotten a bit annoying for me too, since the initial memes of it showed up well into my adulthood, well past when my sense of humor had already developed and mostly solidified. I suppose we're all becoming old people shaking our fist at those darn kids we can't understand. It's just good to keep in mind they grew up in a different world with different jokes and games, so their humor is always gonna seem a little weird.
I prefer to embrace it and just use the memes even more wrong to make them cringe. I think that's hilarious.
I was out shoveling snow the other day and I guess I need new boots cause my feet were frozen. Then it was turnabout is fair play when I put my cold feet on her and she acted like I was the worst human being ever.
It implies a lack of justification, like there is no good reason girls hands are like that. Not sure why everyone is confused. It's a meme format that has been around forever.
Yes I'm aware of the meme. Still don't get how "nothing was said by nobody" implies that, since it's an incoherent concept - such a double negative surely implies someone said something?
A surprising amount of people get their knickers in a twist over it, which is pretty funny tbh. I like to put it in a lot of my memes just to piss people off haha
I'm cold girl until the second I fall asleep, then my body heats up like a nuclear reactor and if I've fallen asleep with a heating pad (because cold) I wake up in 20 minutes all hot and A N G E R Y like the hulk.
Dude i feel you. I've got mild Raynaud's disease (low circulation in hands and feet) and I basically wear gloves and fur-lined slippers 9 months of the year.
To be fair, our heat goes to conserve our inner organs. We may lose our hands first if we're stranded in a blizzard, but we'll survive the men, and hands are replaceable.
But that ‘no one:’ makes the joke.
I don't see how
It's a weird gen Z thing. The original point of the "no one" meme was to make jokes about people responding to things nobody has ever said. Subverting the punchline is a way to increase humor because it's not expected. Misusing the meme phrase entirely sets you up to think the meme is going in a direction you're familiar with only to be a completely different meme, thus increasing the humor. However the "no one" meme has been used this way so often that misusing it became the default use of it instead. Now the humor from it comes from the opposite, in that it's basically a universal buildup that works for any joke. More or less it's a beat phrase that sets up a brief moment of suspense for the punchline, similar to how comics will have dialogueless beat panels to increase the humor of the punchline.
Gen Z grew up with this kind of humor, which is why they think it's so much funnier than older people do. Equally, gen alpha will likely have completely different humor gen Z doesn't understand.
I understand that it's somehow being used incorrectly, but I'm not sure I understand that a correct usage of it would be.
Isx the joke here supposed to be "nobody has ever said girl's hands are cold"?
Because that's a common trope in TV shows, novels, regular conversation.
If the joke is that girl's hands are cold, why would you need "no one", and if the joke is that nobody would talk about girls hands being cold, then clearly that's incorrect.
I appreciate the long explanation, I just do not understand it yet and I've received so many different explanations of what "no one" is supposed to mean without getting any closer to what the joke is.
And I completely agree that whatever the original meaning was is essentially lost in people just put the phrase "no one" in front of any image pretending it is a setup to a joke that it is not.
That's why I crop these images, because there doesn't seem to be anything semantically or comedically gained from "no one".
It's like putting a hat on a hat.
Put simply it isn't a joke. It's evolved to the point where it basically means "prepare yourself, a joke's coming."
It's just a meme that got so overused that it doesn't mean anything anymore.
Think of it like how 90% of knock knock jokes don't need the setup of answering the door, it's just a familiar setup. Why is a banana knocking on the door? Why does there need to be a door in the setup of interrupting cow? That's what "no one" means to younger people. It's a familiar way to set up the joke.
Edit: I forgot to mention, correct usage would be something like:
Nobody:
Me: A trillion lions could totally defeat the sun.
The joke being nobody asked, nobody cares, and I said it anyway.
Okay, thank you for the explanation, I think I understand the structure now.
It's a non-sequitir with an extra step, and despite the setup only making sense preceding non-sequitirs, the setup is used constantly with things people commonly talk about, are obviously popular or easy to get.
I think the knock knock setup makes sense because it very clearly sets the audience in a framework, encouraging you to inquire about the situation that you interrupt by subverting expectations via a punchline.
The no one line seems more like gilding a lily, a hat on a hat, superfluous.
It doesn't add much to a joke or non-sequitur, it's just pointing out that this thing from left field is from left field, while of course if the statement was from left field then you wouldn't need to explain that it was from left field.
Weird.
I understand it better now, and I appreciate your explanation, but I'll keep cropping these as I see them.
The no one line feels too much like a kindergartener rubbing their hands together like "I have a joke for you! My joke is a statement!"
Feel free. The whole "no one" thing has gotten a bit annoying for me too, since the initial memes of it showed up well into my adulthood, well past when my sense of humor had already developed and mostly solidified. I suppose we're all becoming old people shaking our fist at those darn kids we can't understand. It's just good to keep in mind they grew up in a different world with different jokes and games, so their humor is always gonna seem a little weird.
I prefer to embrace it and just use the memes even more wrong to make them cringe. I think that's hilarious.
That’s because it’s not ‘how’ it’s ’no one:’.
You being less funny doesn't make that phrase funnier
No one:
This person being mean:
No one:
Caring
See?
Now you’re understanding!
if we wanna be semantic, it does make it funnier by comparison to this new, absolute-funny-zero
Really?
I'm not asking this facetiously, can you explain how?
I find the cropped version funnier.
we’re talking about the wording of a randy’s comment at this point, not the actual post lol
I know you were being sarcastic.
If you think a girl's hands are cold, wait till you feel their bare feet against your legs in the middle of the night.
Ha! Luckily I don't have that problem like you losers with wives and girlfriends. 🥲
I was out shoveling snow the other day and I guess I need new boots cause my feet were frozen. Then it was turnabout is fair play when I put my cold feet on her and she acted like I was the worst human being ever.
Ice creams
Legs? How about your back lol
Im not Al Bundy and didn't marry Peg.
I married some sort of animal that likes to sleep in weird positions. Legs in back are too common for me
What exactly does the "No one: " accomplish, here?
No one:
This guy: What exactly does the "No one: " accomplish, here?
Lmao I see it now
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Took me forever to understand that it is meant to show the thought is "random" / "weird" / "coming out of thin air"
It's silly. You can see the same thing with memes starting with
So,
How?
Making us all groan at a completely useless part of the meme.
It implies a lack of justification, like there is no good reason girls hands are like that. Not sure why everyone is confused. It's a meme format that has been around forever.
How does it imply that? I know it's been around ages, still don't get it.
Don't really want to have to explain. It's all here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nobody
Yes I'm aware of the meme. Still don't get how "nothing was said by nobody" implies that, since it's an incoherent concept - such a double negative surely implies someone said something?
Better to think of it as "nothing was said, and nobody said it"
So, somebody said something.
No. Nothing was said. And nobody said it.
Allowing us to laff
It accomplishes the text "No one:"
But why
A surprising amount of people get their knickers in a twist over it, which is pretty funny tbh. I like to put it in a lot of my memes just to piss people off haha
I'm cold girl until the second I fall asleep, then my body heats up like a nuclear reactor and if I've fallen asleep with a heating pad (because cold) I wake up in 20 minutes all hot and A N G E R Y like the hulk.
This is my wife. Cold as hell when going to sleep, but in the time it takes me to fall asleep she goes from ice block to inferno.
Nature is amazing
So you the red hulk frfr
Shit! I am a girl!?
And I'm not a girl? Damn!
Well yeah if your names are opposite so would your gender? Common senss i thought
My thoughts exactly. Great, now I need update my peeps while all I wanted was a chill afternoon. :(
This was definitely an unnecessarily gendered post. My wife's secondary function is transforming food into heat energy.
What is wife's primary function? What is her mission?
I don't know about unnecessarily gendered. The joke sorta relies on the common idea that women have colder hands and feet.
Increase the entropy!
People who period are more likely to have less average blood volumes, but you’re right that they may not necessarily be girls.
What are you talking about? Blood volume does not have anything to do with it.
Sup, babe. How's that ipo?
Dude i feel you. I've got mild Raynaud's disease (low circulation in hands and feet) and I basically wear gloves and fur-lined slippers 9 months of the year.
Sounds mutually exclusive
Well that takes the cake as being the weirdest gender euphoria I've experienced so far
a curse in the winter time, a blessing in summer
So help warm'em up!
Yup! Best part of cuddles is being a human blanket
*sighs*
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When she wants to get frisky but the cold makes you turtle.
As someone who is perpetually on fire: I love those icy hands on my back 🥺
To be fair, our heat goes to conserve our inner organs. We may lose our hands first if we're stranded in a blizzard, but we'll survive the men, and hands are replaceable.
Wait, when did hands become replaceable?
Full metal alchemist, duh.
This Woman’s World article discusses the topic and provides supporting citation in the form of embedded links to various sources.
https://www.womansworld.com/posts/health/why-are-women-always-cold
yes studies show females have significantly colder extremeties by a few degrees i forgot exactly how much
This is called samovar
Is there a way we can convince everyone to try to donate blood so if nothing else everyone get a free iron level screening?
Anyone else wondering why she has buttholes in her hands?
To poop obviously?
It’s low blood volume or anemia-induced in most cases I’d say.
I don't understand what happened and why you are downvoted.
🤓
Full disclosure on my part…