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slrpnk.net

I’ve been seeing this meme format for years and it still makes absolutely no sense to me.

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lemmy.world

It started off with something like

"People say: X

Object in meme says: y!"

Someone made a meme saying

"Nobody:

Object in meme says: y"

And it was amusing

Then EVERYONE did it and now you might as well not even have the top part anymore.

Example of original style:

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slrpnk.net

But what does Nobody: mean? How does it relate to the second part of the meme? Why is it funny??? I’m still confused.

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lemmy.ca

It is terribly worded, so it's unnecessarily confusing and unclear, but it means 'nobody says (or does) anything', thus indicating that the second action is unprompted.

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slrpnk.net

Thank you. I'm getting some slightly different answers here though so I wonder if everyone even agrees on what this means.

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Nobody followed by blank means that nobody else is saying, doing, or thinking of whatever the last subject is doing

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As far as I understand it’s supposed to mean the whatever thing is uncalled for.

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Well, if molluscs developed a human-like civilisation, they would be very suprised that human's copulatory organs resemble their breathing siphones.

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