Leebra memes
login register

based vs cringe

7 months ago by TheThunderWolf to c/memes

save

share

report

otacon239 101 points 7 months ago

Another case for the jury

save

path: 0 21864458, hotness: undefined, score: 101, children: 0
Kolanaki 74 points 7 months ago

At least 69 is representative of something. 67 is literally meaningless.

save

path: 0 21863909, hotness: undefined, score: 74, children: 29
NotSteve_ 70 points 7 months ago

XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that's made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own

Today's 67 is 1899's 23

From the XKCD alt text:

In 1899, people were walking around shouting `23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trving to figure out what it meant.

save

path: 0 21863909 21866656, hotness: undefined, score: 70, children: 0
sigmaklimgrindset 33 points 7 months ago

Bro we grew up with "-holds up spork-", we cannot comment on what the newgen find meaning in.

save

path: 0 21863909 21869074, hotness: undefined, score: 33, children: 2
faythofdragons 13 points 7 months ago

So random xD

save

path: 0 21863909 21869074 21869178, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 1
otacon239 1 point 7 months ago

🥔

save

path: 0 21863909 21869074 21869178 21917985, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
SubArcticTundra 20 points 7 months ago

69 fucks

save

path: 0 21863909 21865855, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 5
Kolanaki 26 points 7 months ago

Technically speaking, 69 sucks.

save

path: 0 21863909 21865855 21865932, hotness: undefined, score: 26, children: 4
WR5 16 points 7 months ago

And there's the beauty: it does both!

save

path: 0 21863909 21865855 21865932 21866000, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 0
SippyCup 4 points 7 months ago

Gentlemen, it both sucks and fucks. If she freaky anyway.

save

path: 0 21863909 21865855 21865932 21877394, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
wabafee -7 points 7 months ago

69 stands for S in Sex. (Point each end of the 6 and 9 kinda looks like cursive s)

save

path: 0 21863909 21865855 21865932 21870672, hotness: undefined, score: -7, children: 1
Kolanaki 5 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure it just comes from the fact that two dudes laying on their side to blow each other at the same time just resembles the number 69 when viewed from above.

save

path: 0 21863909 21865855 21865932 21870672 21870732, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
Deathray5 12 points 7 months ago

A better comparison would be our 21

save

path: 0 21863909 21864555, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 4
LifeInMultipleChoice 7 points 7 months ago

21 to me means luck because you won at blackjack.

save

path: 0 21863909 21864555 21868022, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
Wizard_Pope 3 points 7 months ago

That still makes more sense to me at least. Unless I am missing some great context about 67

save

path: 0 21863909 21864555 21871677, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
Deathray5 2 points 7 months ago

A kid said 67 badly

save

path: 0 21863909 21864555 21871677 21876291, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
Wizard_Pope 2 points 7 months ago

That is it?

save

path: 0 21863909 21864555 21871677 21876291 21876399, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
Klear 6 points 7 months ago

So you're saying 67 is the better meme?

save

path: 0 21863909 21871662, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 1
SippyCup 2 points 7 months ago

No

save

path: 0 21863909 21871662 21877339, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
slacktoid 6 points 7 months ago

But that's why its perfect

save

path: 0 21863909 21864007, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
DeathByBigSad 2 points 7 months ago

save

path: 0 21863909 21876418, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
NorthWestWind 4 points 7 months ago

Hell yeah. It's pronounced similarly to 碌柒, which is a swear that means "dumbass".

save

path: 0 21863909 21876418 21881259, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
cattywampas -20 points 7 months ago

It's literally not, you just don't know what it means.

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515, hotness: undefined, score: -20, children: 8
wreckedcarzz 13 points 7 months ago

Carefully observe how the above argument lacks any supporting argument or information.

Curious.

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21865869, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 2
cattywampas -12 points 7 months ago

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21865869 21866513, hotness: undefined, score: -12, children: 1
Passerby6497 18 points 7 months ago

When asked by Complex[7] about the meaning of the numbers, Skrilla said, "Everybody else got their own different meaning. But for me, it's just 'negative to positive.' It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person."

In a comment to the Wall Street Journal[11] from the same timeframe, he also said, "I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to … That’s why everybody keeps saying it."

So it's a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.

Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21865869 21866513 21868454, hotness: undefined, score: 18, children: 0
lugal 9 points 7 months ago

I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don't know the meaning. At this point, it's more than anything a cultural signifier which isn't a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21865634, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 3
wonderingwanderer 3 points 7 months ago

But do they know why six was afraid of seven?

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21865634 21871496, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
lugal 2 points 7 months ago

Because seven ate nine

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21865634 21871496 21871816, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
Kolanaki 6 points 7 months ago

10-67 means something.

The 67 meme literally means nothing. It's not even referencing the code, or the song it originally went viral to which was referencing the police code.

save

path: 0 21863909 21864515 21866001, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
OpenStars 41 points 7 months ago

I feel so seen! :-P

BTW, 42.

save

path: 0 21864123, hotness: undefined, score: 41, children: 1
UPGRAYEDD 5 points 7 months ago

Cant forget the meaning of life and everything.

save

path: 0 21864123 21871035, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
BananaPeal 37 points 7 months ago

As a dad who tries to connect with his kids, I made a 67 reference last week. Their response: "Oh Dad, 67 is old now." Kids these days can't even commit to the bit. 🤣

save

path: 0 21866897, hotness: undefined, score: 37, children: 2
wonderingwanderer 31 points 7 months ago

You made it old when you said it. Could you imagine your own parents making 420 jokes?

save

path: 0 21866897 21871431, hotness: undefined, score: 31, children: 1
BananaPeal 4 points 7 months ago

I've referenced it a few times in the past and they didn't complain. Oh well.

save

path: 0 21866897 21871431 21871625, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
WonderRin 32 points 7 months ago

This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.

There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.

save

path: 0 21868968, hotness: undefined, score: 32, children: 11
SkunkWorkz 9 points 7 months ago

6 x 7 = 42

save

path: 0 21868968 21876804, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 1
Danquebec 4 points 7 months ago

Mind blown

save

path: 0 21868968 21876804 21877063, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
sem 4 points 7 months ago

How is 21 funny?

save

path: 0 21868968 21871538, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 8
Wizard_Pope 17 points 7 months ago

What's 9 plus 10?

save

path: 0 21868968 21871538 21871661, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 6
sem 2 points 7 months ago

19?

Or 910 or 109?

save

path: 0 21868968 21871538 21871661 21871971, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 4
Wizard_Pope 8 points 7 months ago

save

path: 0 21868968 21871538 21871661 21871971 21871991, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 3
slacktoid 2 points 7 months ago

21!

save

path: 0 21868968 21871538 21871661 21878849, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
SippyCup 3 points 7 months ago

It's half the answer

save

path: 0 21868968 21871538 21877322, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
ivanafterall 20 points 7 months ago

80085

save

path: 0 21871736, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 5
DeathByBigSad 8 points 7 months ago

5319009

save

path: 0 21871736 21876366, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 4
ivanafterall 2 points 7 months ago

[]D [] []v[] []D

save

path: 0 21871736 21876366 21880741, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 3
MeowerMisfit817 3 points 7 months ago

Wait, I didn't get this one

save

path: 0 21871736 21876366 21880741 21881554, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
ivanafterall 3 points 7 months ago

It's not a calculator thing. It's an old instant messaging thing that spells PIMP.

save

path: 0 21871736 21876366 21880741 21881554 21886196, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
twinkwithahammer 18 points 7 months ago

Gentlemen, there's a solution here you are not seeing . . . 68!

save

path: 0 21871192, hotness: undefined, score: 18, children: 8
Una 32 points 7 months ago

68±1

save

path: 0 21871192 21871491, hotness: undefined, score: 32, children: 4
SippyCup 5 points 7 months ago

±1 WHAT ALEX. ±1 WHAT??

1 thou? 1 millimeter? A fucking mile?! WHAT DOES ±1 MEAN YOU FUCKING HACK.

This rant brought to you by a salty machinist and a new engineer.

save

path: 0 21871192 21871491 21877303, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1
Una 2 points 7 months ago

Kebab

save

path: 0 21871192 21871491 21877303 21878424, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
DeathByBigSad 3 points 7 months ago

Holy shit I'm stealing this comment

save

path: 0 21871192 21871491 21876377, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
shira 2 points 7 months ago

save

path: 0 21871192 21871491 21875906, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
RichardDegenne 7 points 7 months ago

I don't see why 2480035542436830599600990418569171581047399201355367672371710738018221445712183296000000000000000 would be funny...

save

path: 0 21871192 21876704, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 1
_stranger_ 2 points 7 months ago

You will have had to have been there, I guess.

save

path: 0 21871192 21876704 21877850, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
Danquebec 4 points 7 months ago

The middle ground fallacy

save

path: 0 21871192 21877181, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
slacktoid 16 points 7 months ago

Dont get me started on skibidi toilet!

save

path: 0 21863865, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 4
Maultasche 28 points 7 months ago

Our glorious Gmod videos

Their horrible SFM animations

save

path: 0 21863865 21865335, hotness: undefined, score: 28, children: 2
slacktoid 7 points 7 months ago

I legit enjoy it and think it's a fun commentary on legacy vs contemporary media.

save

path: 0 21863865 21865335 21867347, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 1
Klear 3 points 7 months ago

Skibidi toilet is shockingly well made.

save

path: 0 21863865 21865335 21867347 21871679, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
NotSteve_ 12 points 7 months ago

I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride

save

path: 0 21863865 21867646, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 0
sol6_vi 15 points 7 months ago

I always wondered when I'd stop being the one being hated by adults and start being the one hating kids. I always wondered what it would be that I "didn't get". I thought, I'm tech savvy. I don't know in what way I would be left behind by future generations. I could not have predicted this.

save

path: 0 21872150, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 2
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 7 months ago

so it's fun. turns out, you just keep being hated by everyone

save

path: 0 21872150 21876201, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
sol6_vi 3 points 7 months ago

Yay

save

path: 0 21872150 21876201 21876335, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Korne127 10 points 7 months ago

I love the fact that I never turned into this guy that hates the new stuff. I wasn't hating fidget spinners when everybody hated them, I liked Fortnite, I think skibidi toilet is fun and such. But just as I didn't like some trends when I was young myself (e.g. I never wanted to join the Gangnam style dance), I do find it disappointing that 67 is so popular, because I loved the fact that 69 is funny because of sex.

save

path: 0 21879199, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 4
MeowerMisfit817 9 points 7 months ago

Atleast 69 had a context. 67 literally was a kid spurting out a random number.

save

path: 0 21879199 21881543, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 2
P1k1e 1 point 7 months ago

I just kinda assumed it was a mix of memes "why was 66 afraid of 67? Cuz 67 68 69" Ba-dum-cha

save

path: 0 21879199 21881543 21894628, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
Korne127 1 point 7 months ago

But I mean, the same is true with E. It was a random letter. And there have been other random funny numbers. I just don't like it because it "hurts" 69's status of the funny number xD

save

path: 0 21879199 21881543 21897645, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
Burninator05 2 points 7 months ago

Im with you on this. I'm in my mid-40s but I work with a lot of 19-25 year olds so I am still exposed to a lot of current memes/slang/whatever. There's only been a couple that I thought were absolutely stupid.

save

path: 0 21879199 21893186, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
FiniteBanjo 9 points 7 months ago

TBF though, the Slop Posting isn't comparable at all. Slop is actual negative value given form.

save

path: 0 21864704, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 0
FudgyMcTubbs 7 points 7 months ago

I don't know what "based" means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

save

path: 0 21877416, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 5
thethunderwolf 6 points 7 months ago

It's the opposite of "cringe"

save

path: 0 21877416 21881266, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 2
MathiasTCK 3 points 7 months ago

Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based

(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.

save

path: 0 21877416 21881266 21892961, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
thethunderwolf 2 points 7 months ago

well that's what it originally meant

I've mostly seen it referring to other things, sometimes non-political things and sometimes political things but as a positive statement about something progressive

save

path: 0 21877416 21881266 21892961 21931318, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
HoopyFrood 5 points 7 months ago

So based

save

path: 0 21877416 21878718, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1
FudgyMcTubbs 8 points 7 months ago

Is this where I say six seven? Am I doing it? Do the kids think I'm cool yet?

save

path: 0 21877416 21878718 21879155, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0
Una 4 points 7 months ago

e

save

path: 0 21871485, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
Gullible 3 points 7 months ago

There is a point where random noises become a song. Disposability of culture is, to my eye, a novelty that hasn’t yet reached the point of becoming a song. It’s just random noises, and I want to silence them with a heavy pipe to the throat

save

path: 0 21864822, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
Rcklsabndn 4 points 7 months ago

Scatman.mp3

save

path: 0 21864822 21872073, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
certified_expert 3 points 7 months ago

69 > 67

save

path: 0 21903086, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
hansolo -10 points 7 months ago

Could say the same for:

Politics.

Religion.

Ethnic groups.

Sport teams.

Cola preference.

Cutting some bits off your genitals or not.

Operaring systems.

Humans are a hoot, huh?

save

path: 0 21863904, hotness: undefined, score: -10, children: 11
TankovayaDiviziya 22 points 7 months ago

The first three things you brought up are the concepts literally criticised by the unedited original cartoon.

save

path: 0 21863904 21864926, hotness: undefined, score: 22, children: 1
hansolo -2 points 7 months ago

Ok, and I've never seen that.

save

path: 0 21863904 21864926 21869087, hotness: undefined, score: -2, children: 0
rigatti 10 points 7 months ago

Politics at its root is ideals about how to structure society though. It does, however, devolve into a team sports mentality in a lot of cases, which is I think what you're getting at.

save

path: 0 21863904 21864083, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 1
MotoAsh 6 points 7 months ago

Yea, several of those things have actual qualitative and quantitative measurements on which they can be compared, but far be it from the common dingdong to think in such lofty terms...

save

path: 0 21863904 21864083 21864521, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
MotoAsh 6 points 7 months ago

Wait, who the hell is pro genital mutilation!?

... Oh wait, Jews do circumcision... siiiiigghhhh

(I'm also aware some areas of India/middle east do FGM too, but I don't remember if it's for anything close to religous reasons)

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 6
femtek 9 points 7 months ago

Most Christians in the US.

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466 21865879, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 1
MotoAsh 6 points 7 months ago

Throws up a little in my mouth.

... Thanks, I wanted to taste breakfast again!

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466 21865879 21865923, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
hansolo 3 points 7 months ago

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466 21869134, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
MotoAsh -1 points 7 months ago

Getting roasted because people don't want their dingdong cut off... +1 for accuracy though.

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466 21869134 21869774, hotness: undefined, score: -1, children: 1
hansolo 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, right? Because saying something exists and showing evidence makes me a terrible person somehow?

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466 21869134 21869774 21871592, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
thethunderwolf 2 points 7 months ago

Not only Jews, also US Christians for some reason.

save

path: 0 21863904 21864466 21881387, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
memes
memes

@lemmy.world

login for more options
22396
9994
13185

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

go to feed...