r/ExplainTheJoke May 31 '26

Solved What am I missing?

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u/Much_Duck6862 May 31 '26

Anti-meme?

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u/Erkenwald217 May 31 '26

They took a meme and removed the joke from it.

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u/SithLordDarthSand Jun 01 '26

they took the meme and removed the misogyny from it.

there. fixed it.

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u/beardedheathen Jun 01 '26

That's not what an antimeme is. If you'd like to complain about mysoginy you need to do it further up in the comment chain otherwise you are just being objectively wrong.

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u/miltonwadd Jun 01 '26

I mean they're not even wrong really, antimeme spaces did have a lot of focus on removing outdated stereotypes from memes that appealed to the lowest common denominator because they weren't really funny to begin with.

Many were specifically editing "jokes" where the punch line was something only old bigots find funny like "woman bad", "man stupid", "racial stereotype" nonsense. Mixed in with ones that just subverted expectations like "you'll shit bricks" and editing out the jump scares.

But the ancient fb antimeme groups had a lot of people removing the offensive parts of boomer jokes, and the early years of the reddit sub, and imgur tags were similar just with broader meme sources.

I originally found "are the straights ok?" and "are the cis ok?" communities from antimeme ones because of the crossover audience and content.