• Korne127@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yes.
      This isn’t an ordinary meme in the sense that it takes an image (e.g. a bus and a train crashing) and puts it in a different context / adds text that uses the image as a metaphor (e.g. the bus and train standing for other things).
      This is a (photoshopped) picture in which the sense of the image is taken literally by the caption. So yeah… when it takes itself seriously, I can also take this scenario seriously and just think about it.

      Edit: But I mean jokes usually also take themselves seriously and you don’t think about the scenario. I think the difference is that I don’t see anything unordinary or funny in this picture; I don’t see a joke. I think playing the Doom soundtrack to an unborn child is something completely reasonable I can imagine doing; so I just focus on what real implications this scenario had (not telling the future mother, which is still bad imo).

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        9 months ago

        If that’s how you interpret these kinds of jokes (people pretending to be stupid and shitty to each other): For your own sake, never watch It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.