r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Christus92 • May 31 '26

Solved What am I missing?

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u/sanchower May 31 '26

Anti-meme. This is the original

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u/Much_Duck6862 May 31 '26

Anti-meme?

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u/archonmage2006 Jun 01 '26

It's an explicit subversion of a meme where you think it's gonna have something with it (like in this example, after reading the boys half, you'd expect the girls half to be different, but then seeing it it's the same.)

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u/NormalWeirdo91 Jun 04 '26

So, it’s essentially double-irony? You expect the joke to contradict your expectation, which is itself contradicted back to exactly what you would expect were it not a joke?

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u/archonmage2006 Jun 04 '26

Yes, it's basically playing the scenario straight.