Itâs a weird gen Z thing. The original point of the âno oneâ meme was to make jokes about people responding to things nobody has ever said. Subverting the punchline is a way to increase humor because itâs not expected. Misusing the meme phrase entirely sets you up to think the meme is going in a direction youâre familiar with only to be a completely different meme, thus increasing the humor. However the âno oneâ meme has been used this way so often that misusing it became the default use of it instead. Now the humor from it comes from the opposite, in that itâs basically a universal buildup that works for any joke. More or less itâs a beat phrase that sets up a brief moment of suspense for the punchline, similar to how comics will have dialogueless beat panels to increase the humor of the punchline.
Gen Z grew up with this kind of humor, which is why they think itâs so much funnier than older people do. Equally, gen alpha will likely have completely different humor gen Z doesnât understand.
I understand that itâs somehow bring used incorrectly, but Iâm not sure I understand that a correct usage of it would be.
Isx the joke here supposed to be ânobody has ever said girlâs hands are coldâ?
Because thatâs a common trope in TV shows, novels, regular conversation.
If the joke is that girlâs hands are cold, why would you need âno oneâ, and if the joke is that nobody would talk about girls hands being cold, then clearly thatâs incorrect.
I appreciate the long explanation, I just do not understand it yet and Iâve received so many different explanations of what âno oneâ is supposed to mean without getting any closer to what the joke is.
And I completely agree that whatever the original meaning was is essentially lost in people just put the phrase âno oneâ in front of any image pretending it is a setup to a joke that it is not.
Thatâs why I crop these images, because there doesnât seem to be anything semantically or comedically gained from âno oneâ.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world âš1â© âšyearâ© ago
But that âno one:â makes the joke.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works âš1â© âšyearâ© ago
I donât see how
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world âš1â© âšyearâ© ago
Thatâs because itâs not âhowâ itâs âno one:â.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works âš1â© âšyearâ© ago
You being less funny doesnât make that phrase funnier
Sombyr@lemmy.zip âš1â© âšyearâ© ago
Itâs a weird gen Z thing. The original point of the âno oneâ meme was to make jokes about people responding to things nobody has ever said. Subverting the punchline is a way to increase humor because itâs not expected. Misusing the meme phrase entirely sets you up to think the meme is going in a direction youâre familiar with only to be a completely different meme, thus increasing the humor. However the âno oneâ meme has been used this way so often that misusing it became the default use of it instead. Now the humor from it comes from the opposite, in that itâs basically a universal buildup that works for any joke. More or less itâs a beat phrase that sets up a brief moment of suspense for the punchline, similar to how comics will have dialogueless beat panels to increase the humor of the punchline.
Gen Z grew up with this kind of humor, which is why they think itâs so much funnier than older people do. Equally, gen alpha will likely have completely different humor gen Z doesnât understand.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works âš1â© âšyearâ© ago
I understand that itâs somehow bring used incorrectly, but Iâm not sure I understand that a correct usage of it would be.
Isx the joke here supposed to be ânobody has ever said girlâs hands are coldâ?
Because thatâs a common trope in TV shows, novels, regular conversation.
If the joke is that girlâs hands are cold, why would you need âno oneâ, and if the joke is that nobody would talk about girls hands being cold, then clearly thatâs incorrect.
I appreciate the long explanation, I just do not understand it yet and Iâve received so many different explanations of what âno oneâ is supposed to mean without getting any closer to what the joke is.
And I completely agree that whatever the original meaning was is essentially lost in people just put the phrase âno oneâ in front of any image pretending it is a setup to a joke that it is not.
Thatâs why I crop these images, because there doesnât seem to be anything semantically or comedically gained from âno oneâ.
Itâs like putting a hat on a hat.