• @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    80•6 months ago

    I still don’t really get how the “no one” tag works.

    This meme works perfectly fine without “no one” preceding it.

    Most “no one” memes do.

    Why add the no one in front?

    Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

    Thank you for your time

    • @XEAL@lemm.ee
      36•6 months ago

      Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

      Kinda, as if the idea the meme talks about came out of nowhere, unrequested

    • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10•6 months ago

      I hate it as much as I hate punchline images that tell you how to feel about it.

      DESTRUCTION 100

      (Face of a meme guy)

    • @technojamin@lemmy.world
      10•6 months ago

      It’s a riff on the meme formats that go:

      My cashier: …

      Me: …

      “No one:” represents something coming out of the blue, completely unprompted. It’s definitely getting overused, but that’s just an inevitable part of the lifecycle of a meme.

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        5•6 months ago

        I don’t mind it being used if it makes sense, but it seems unnecessary most of the time, drawing attention away from the meme.

        I’d also like to point out that almost every answer about the no one memes describes a different reasoning for what it is used.

        This implies its unnecessary quality. Subjective, important placeholder.

        • @technojamin@lemmy.world
          4•6 months ago

          I agree that it usually doesn’t add anything to the meme, especially nowadays. It’s a pretty low-effort template.

          I like Know Your Meme’s description:

          a phrasal template used to mock people who strive to attract attention and tend to provide unsolicited opinions, as well as for observational humor.

          I think its original usage in mocking attention seeking was funnier. It’s basically generalized into any observational humor though, which is when it becomes unnecessary.

          • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
            4•6 months ago

            That makes sense to me where it would work. The memer would have to have an accurate sense of humor instead of just scatter shooting the phrase all over the place, but that’s difficult, so we end up with these. Thanks

    • @Elektrotechnik@feddit.de
      6•6 months ago

      THANK YOU! It has become a pet peeve of mine. I think it’s supposed to reference “no one asked”. But if that’s the case, the meme should be

      Nobody: “Hey I’d really like every music video to be shot with a fish-eye lens”.

      or

      Everyone:

      It doesn’t make sense.

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        2•6 months ago

        I think this is the first explanation I found searching, “no one asked”, but yea, if that’s correct, it is not super clear and is often redundant

    • Mike
      4•6 months ago

      Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

      Correct.

        • @akaxaka@lemmy.world
          2•6 months ago

          Courtesy of Hype Williams (Harold Williams) the director of all these music videos.

          From wikipedia:

          Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes’ “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check”, the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy wit It”, MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC’s “No Scrubs”, and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West’s “Gold Digger”.[4]

    • pingveno
      11•6 months ago

      Listening to how that video was made was awesome. It’s so simple and obvious when it’s explained to you, even if it’s not particularly obvious on its face.

  • @Phanlix@lemmy.world
    12•6 months ago

    I really miss old school MTV though. I feel like, for a time, bands were doing some crazy music videos that were as much works of art as the music itself.

    • The Picard ManeuverOPM
      3•6 months ago

      I do too. I remember for a short period, you’d go over to anyone’s house and they’d just have MTV on a TV somewhere playing video after video.

      It was immensely popular, and it was a fun way to passively see a bunch of artists without any effort.

  • tygerprints
    7•6 months ago

    Futuristic cheese graters will be anti-gravity, and so will toasters. You’ll really have a hard time keeping your breakfast and lunch down in the world of the future.

  • Flying Squid
    6•6 months ago

    “Damn it, Jerry. We bought this computer and we sure as hell are going to use it!”

  • modifier
    5•6 months ago

    Surely that’s just a present-day cheerleader with a cartoon character stuck in it.