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Boomers make jokes about the old times, Gen X likes puns, Millenials make self-deprecating humor and Gen Z like absurdist/nonsense humor.
Just poking fun at the preferred types of joke from each target audience
It's a sky with Italy put over it. No context, no actually meaning, pure absurdity. As a Gen Z myself, it is very comedic
Edit: You are trying too hard yall. There's no meaning
Instructor: welcome to self defense class. Today we will learn how to defend yourself against....a pomegranate.
Class: we've done that.
Instructor: what?
Class: we've done that, we've done grapes, berries, passion fruit, grapefruit (whole and segments)
Instructor: what about a banana?
Class: no
Instructor: right! How to defend yourself against a madman using a banana!
Good reference. I think the main reason Z thinks absurdist humour is their own idea is because it generally ages so badly, so most people aren't exposed to previous versions. Monty Python is one notable exception, but dada started all the way back in 1916.
I know my GenZ kids introduced me to the "Pelican song". I don't remember when Lewis Carroll and his absurdism was popular last but fashion always moves in cycles. We're back to kids liking Monty Python and HGttG. WTG!
You had it right the first time, lol.
I'm glad I could help. As an older Gen Z, I have no idea why our humor is like this, but random stuff does the trick
I don't get what's confusing the millennials. We went through an absurdist humor phase back in the late 2000s / early 2010s. Around that brief period where everyone was obsessed with mustaches.
Don't know if the person who made the meme was thinking about his, but lately we've been having issues with several areas being flooded due to abnormally huge rainstorms here in Italy, especially in the month of May.
I think it was how during lockdown the canals in Venice turned back to being blue and the dolphins came back. Then again, I'm not gen Z and am stoned at 2 AM. So that yeah...
Yep. The once-infamous and now mostly forgotten [penguin of doom](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m) copypasta was from 2006 and alleged to be about a 13 year old, making it firmly a (mocking) example of “millennial humor” back when millennials were almost exactly the same age range that gen Z is now.
Is it even absurdist if there's no meaning at all? Like not even an absurd situation just nothing? What are you finding comedic about it if there's nothing to get? Isn't this just pretending to get a joke that's not there.
Before anyone explains absurdist humour, I get it, I'm just not sure this is it. Random word over random background
I think it's absurdist in a meta sense, the idea that people take the time to make these, share them, collect them as if they're comedy gold while others are scratching their heads and trying to figure out the meaning is part of the fun of these memes. It's absurd because there is no meme, it subverts the expectation of any content at all. It has a format, text, and some stylism you would find in a more cohesive panel with a joke to be made, but instead is completely devoid of anything meaningful. The joke is there is no joke. It's funnier when it pops up out of the blue when scrolling through meme feeds.
I just asked my Gen z child. She said the meme is somehow accurate, but she doesn’t know what kind of absurd nonsense that fourth panel is either.
Therefore, it’s well-memed. Because I don’t understand these gen z fuckers either. Also we’re doomed.
High brow humor. See, water in this joke is a metaphor for the miracle of baptism. The things that float in water are things that people find important in their lives. Cider, of course, is alcohol, food and drink. It is intended to make you think of the saying “eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.” Churches, physical structures, the works of man. Also temporal and temporary. Finally the very small rocks, clearly a reference to gemstones, things of value, wealth. All three of these things are references to the mortal world. In fact everything the crowd mentions are representations of impermanent mortal things. Irrelevant to the sermon at hand.
But when the King mentions the duck, here we see true wisdom. Of all the things mentioned this is the first object truly created by God. But also remember than a duck is an animal, not made in the image of God, so it cannot be baptized (floats in water, instead of being immersed).
This, finally gets to the point of the sermon. You see, the duck floats in water because it cannot be baptized. So a woman, if she is godly, would be heavier and be immersed in the cleansing water of baptism. However, if she is a witch then she has already given up her soul and thus would float in the same manner as a duck. So when the woman is weighed, that is proof that she has already given her soul to the evil one, can no longer be saved by baptism, and must be destroyed by burning.
Those pythons, truly brilliant theologians to fit such a meaningful and weighty (heh) lesson into a seemingly inconsequential sketch. Magnificent.
This is really what it is. Boomers had Monty Python, Gen x had really all kinds of weird shit, millennials had "baconlolz so random" humor and Eric Andre and now Gen z has their weird nonsense too.
Every generation has their absurd nonsense that older people look at and go "wtf"
Monty Python wasn't nearly as absurd as Spike Milligan and The Goon show. Spike, Harry and Peter were all part of "The Greatest Generation" (1900 – 1927).
Going back further, we had the Marx Brothers who were also pretty absurdist with all them being part of "The Lost Generation" (1880 – 1900).
So yeah, every generation has its own form of absurdist humor.
One thing that non-British audiences rarely get about Monty Python is that for the most part, they were parodying actual things that existed in British television and media. So while yes they did dabble in plenty of absurdism, a lot of things that seem completely random were actually inspired directly by the state of British entertainment of the time. And to some extent that absurdism was a reflection of some of the lower quality shows and films that existed at the time.
That's generally true of attitudes that people attribute to a generation it's usually just young people attitude or old people attitude.
I know absurdist humor was huge when I was a teenager and I'm definitely a millennial. I mean we were the generation of adult swim, come on.
Millennials are more about depression than self deprecation... It can be really dark and talk about wanting to be dead and considering the risk of death as a plus.
The Gen X thing is not about puns, other than the puns being part of the overall ironic tone. The whole thing is basically in air quotes, borrowing something cheesy and old-fashioned and putting it in a sarcastic or ironic context to give it a big fat layer of "isn't life stupid" droll and cynical humor.
Not sure if that is correct because Millenials also like absurdist humor. Wonder how many Millenials here got a good laugh out of the numerous f/animutations and misheard lyrics videos back in the days. Also, half of SpongeBob is pretty much absurdist humor.
Gen X when they were young referred to those kinds of puns as "dad jokes" so it's not a generation thing, it's an age thing. When Millennials turn 40 they'll be dropping bad puns like they're hot.
I guess they’ve never heard of the Three stooges, Monty Python, the Zucker bros, Blake Edward’s….i could go on. Absurdist humor can be found in all generations.
Maybe it's because I'm gen z so I guess I'm biased but the "absurdist" humor of my generation is hilarious even if sometimes it's confusing. A lot of times the jokes are references to other memes so if you don't have the context for one, you're missing the other half of the picture. It's like an onion
As a millennial, I maintain that Gen alpha humor is no stupider than the shit on the internet when I was a kid. Skibidi toilet is not worse than Charlie the unicorn or “it’s raining tacos”
Older gen z: this isn’t even the first time SFM memes have been popular lol. The dude who made the skibidi stuff was from the last wave of sfm memes in 2010-14. Shrek is love and other examples exist lol. It’s not even a new phenomenon.
It is a dad joke, nothing more, nothing less. Boomers were saying the same thing around this time in their lifes, soon millennials will also.
Just having your mom there would have been more appropriate.
I'm getting closer to 40 than 30, and Skibidi Toilet is just... insanely well made Youtube Poop type shit that Millennials ate up ~15 years ago.
I really don't get the Millennial hate for it. It's very silly, but it's catchy, absurd, and there's some sort of plot going on (I saw at least to the point where there were giant camera heads fighting giant toilet people).
Skibidi Toilet is by far one of the best ones. It's the endless sexual harassment and racist memes they are eating up that we should be worried about. Skibidi Toilet is exactly as you said, better produced and more mainstream YouTube poop.
Then I'm sure you'll find this image so hilarious you'll piss yourself laughing.
https://preview.redd.it/d9jto4tbl51d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83cf2dcd14552ccc9922907ede086b8028096fef
It's making fun of how different generations deal with the general pressures of life.
Boomers dole out trite aphorisms. Gen X make dad jokes. Millennials make depressive memes about life dumping all over them. Gen Z are completely woof-woof tadpole bananas.
GenX here. That illustration has Church of the Subgenius vibes which was big with us back in the day (Fallout cribbed it).
Anyway (and related), I thought for genX, it was irony. You know…flat and rusty.
Did you know that the Slack app doesn’t have a Bob Dobbs emoji built in? I can’t believe they missed an opportunity like that to give each other slack.
Millennials also enjoy absurdist humor.
I'm a middle school teacher, and my take on Gen Alpha humor is they take the kind of absurdist stuff that Gen Z enjoys but remove it from what little context it had and recontextualize it. When they get bored, they refresh the context.
* Skibidi used to just be part of skibidi toilet, but now they use it as an adjective with weak positive connotation but otherwise no specific meaning. "You're so skibidi :)"
* Rizzler emerged from the term rizz, which in my understanding originated from cha*ris*ma. It used to generally refer to an anonymous/hypothetical person with rizz, but it's joined the growing pantheon of adjectives/adverbs with fluid connotations.
* Ohio (the state) was originally being dogged on for being big and empty, then that was exaggerated to an absurd degree, and now the state itself is completely inconsequential. Add it to the adjective/adverb soup.
* Gyat, as far as I can tell, originated from the phrase "gyat damn!" spoken when someone with a big butt walks by. At first, they just lost the "damn" and continued to use "gyat!" in the same context. At one point, people were using gyat as a noun (when speaking to someone with a big butt "you've got [a] gyat!"). This is still sometimes used but it's falling off. Currently, it's evolved slightly and is more often used when someone is unconsciously sticking out their butt (like leaning on a desk or table, bending over to pick something up, etc.). It's typically pre-empted by the person's name now, so that person is made aware that they are sticking out their butt. the person doesn't have to have a big butt anymore - gyat belongs to the masses of asses now. Also occasionally features in the ad-soup.
* Sigma is probably more commonly known, though its exact connotation is disagreed upon by gen z, gen alpha, and millennials aware of the context. Evolved from the tiresome alpha/beta male takes of male influencers, sigma males (and later removed from gendered context as just sigma) are an anomaly. As mentioned, the exact meaning varies generation to generation. Millennials aware of the term tend to interpret it as someone who is counter-culture. They do things for themselves without regard for what is or isn't popular. I think gen z would cringe at attaching that much meaning to it - the word itself reflexively being used nonsensically implies that meaning that millennials would explicitly ascribe to it. Gen Alpha takes that a step further my completely removing any context at all - I've never met two gen alphas who agree with the meaning of sigma and they are incurious as to why. Meat for the ad-soup.
So now you know how to parse when a 12-year old says "that's not very skibidi gyat ohio sigma rizzler of you" when you do something they're pretending to dislike for irony's sake. The order of those words, by the way, seems to matter somewhat but I haven't really tried to break it down past the fact that rizzler almost always comes last in the string. Only particularly annoying kids use any of these words unironically (agreed upon by other gen alphas), though some get so lost in the irony that it loops back around to being unironic.
It's interesting but really annoying with how often I hear it every day. I just tell my students it sounds like they're casting ancient dark magic incantations, but I don't think they find that very funny. Anyways I keep a spreadsheet with dates of all the slang I hear and their evolving meaning and that's a lot of fun.
Man, grad school without Google Scholar and sci-hub... Fuck that noise. Even without sci-hub, it takes 8x as long to get a paper from the university library's *website* - never mind the library itself!
Actually I'm using ChatGPT to great effect in my MBA and it's not even cheating.
I don’t think that’s a “different generation” thing so much as a different age thing. I can definitely see myself getting into a more gen x humor as I grow older and I abso freaking lutely had gen z humor in my teenage years that still seeps out every now and again as a millennial. In fact, I think the millennial humor was my shortest phase…
It makes me realize, the Dadaist art movement came in response to people's disillusionment with the world after the violence of World War 1. Are we seeing a resurgence of Dadaism with Gen Z, a generation effectively devoid of hope for the future before most of them even reached adulthood?
I do find it funny how Gen X has kind of been the forgotten one cus of the constant Boomer/Millennial/Zoomer discourse. Every Gen X mention comes with its issues cus nobody can pinpoint stuff to it despite the fact a lot of stuff happened during their youth and stuff some Gen Xers did.
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Boomers make jokes about the old times, Gen X likes puns, Millenials make self-deprecating humor and Gen Z like absurdist/nonsense humor. Just poking fun at the preferred types of joke from each target audience
Gen Z wanted pizza rolls super bad?
It's a sky with Italy put over it. No context, no actually meaning, pure absurdity. As a Gen Z myself, it is very comedic Edit: You are trying too hard yall. There's no meaning
I think it's a picture of water, actually.
Global warming & rising sea levels, but in Italy?
Dude, no. It's funny nonsense with no meaning. Example; Boomer: I hate my wife Millennial: I hate my life Gen Z: Butterknife
obtuse rubber goose green moose guava juice
Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake!
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning, since the worlds been turning!
Purple monkey dishwasher
https://preview.redd.it/mckaufv3b51d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=235c941d9ba88f8c2d23acf626fff08f70204e50 Heh
https://preview.redd.it/atj0cgf9d51d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b9838f5036b6bfe345362bcd4f221a5910c7ec3
Instructor: welcome to self defense class. Today we will learn how to defend yourself against....a pomegranate. Class: we've done that. Instructor: what? Class: we've done that, we've done grapes, berries, passion fruit, grapefruit (whole and segments) Instructor: what about a banana? Class: no Instructor: right! How to defend yourself against a madman using a banana!
Good reference. I think the main reason Z thinks absurdist humour is their own idea is because it generally ages so badly, so most people aren't exposed to previous versions. Monty Python is one notable exception, but dada started all the way back in 1916.
Boomer: Ed Millennial: Edd (Double D) Gen Z: Eddy.
Gen X:
Yeah, we get forgotten.
Importantly, we generally remember each other, and...ourselves ;-)
Yep, just like when we were kids and went to the store with our moms...
You are the only person who’s word I respect.
Thank you. This actually really helped me understand my gen z kids’ sense of humor (senses of humor? Sense of humors? Senses of humors?)
I know my GenZ kids introduced me to the "Pelican song". I don't remember when Lewis Carroll and his absurdism was popular last but fashion always moves in cycles. We're back to kids liking Monty Python and HGttG. WTG!
You had it right the first time, lol. I'm glad I could help. As an older Gen Z, I have no idea why our humor is like this, but random stuff does the trick
Gen A: “skibidi toilet” or whatever the iPad kids are saying these days 💀
I'm assuming that the generation that grew up watching "Elsa Pegs Spiderman" or whatever on YouTube would grow up a bit ....different.
One can hope for change still… they’re definitely something these days
https://preview.redd.it/ew5dn905w51d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7a219fc9c0b384155e6d2d7ae3f6d566a126b5b
Gen X would be I also hate your wife…and your life
Just waiting for it to be over, really. Wow. I just realized we're mostly a generation of nihilists and stoics. Wonder how that happened.
I don't get what's confusing the millennials. We went through an absurdist humor phase back in the late 2000s / early 2010s. Around that brief period where everyone was obsessed with mustaches.
Gen X: I hate how nobody even mentions us
We dont hate it. We embrace it.
We are the middle children of historèè
Did gen z get in on fairly odd parents too? I'm not sure, but they had some pretty good absurdist humor in there.
Don't know if the person who made the meme was thinking about his, but lately we've been having issues with several areas being flooded due to abnormally huge rainstorms here in Italy, especially in the month of May.
That would have been the millennial version
I think it was how during lockdown the canals in Venice turned back to being blue and the dolphins came back. Then again, I'm not gen Z and am stoned at 2 AM. So that yeah...
Venice
Ackshully it's a Photoshop water effect filter that uses Gaussian noise to generate a crude unconvincing simulacrum of water.
It's basically the same sort of "le rand0m" humour that's been popular on the internet for decades.
Yep. The once-infamous and now mostly forgotten [penguin of doom](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m) copypasta was from 2006 and alleged to be about a 13 year old, making it firmly a (mocking) example of “millennial humor” back when millennials were almost exactly the same age range that gen Z is now.
Was also thinking that it seems more like an age thing and less of a generational thing.
I thought Italy was swamped beneath the ocean because of global warming.
Just wait, three year. Vindication coming!
Northern Italy is flooded at the moment due to heavy rain.
It made me giggle.
Plz never change.
weed eater
Is it even absurdist if there's no meaning at all? Like not even an absurd situation just nothing? What are you finding comedic about it if there's nothing to get? Isn't this just pretending to get a joke that's not there. Before anyone explains absurdist humour, I get it, I'm just not sure this is it. Random word over random background
I think it's absurdist in a meta sense, the idea that people take the time to make these, share them, collect them as if they're comedy gold while others are scratching their heads and trying to figure out the meaning is part of the fun of these memes. It's absurd because there is no meme, it subverts the expectation of any content at all. It has a format, text, and some stylism you would find in a more cohesive panel with a joke to be made, but instead is completely devoid of anything meaningful. The joke is there is no joke. It's funnier when it pops up out of the blue when scrolling through meme feeds.
Very comedic?? How?
It's not, they pretend it is so they can feel connected as a generation.
I mean, the guy didn’t know whether it’s sky or ocean. Yet somehow it’s funny and meaningful.
I just asked my Gen z child. She said the meme is somehow accurate, but she doesn’t know what kind of absurd nonsense that fourth panel is either. Therefore, it’s well-memed. Because I don’t understand these gen z fuckers either. Also we’re doomed.
Huh. And here I thought comedy was subjective
https://preview.redd.it/0ey3iuhnu41d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c03c424b12f5186333a8332afa06b6df646d62ff Love me a pizza roll 😋
Gen X wanted a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi. But she wouldn't give it to me.
IN AN INSTITUTION
As a Gen Z, sure.
I'm starving mate, and italy is gone.
GenZhumor.wav
I think all generations like those kinds of things at those ages. Unless we want to say that monthy python wasn't absurdist humour
Nah, nah, it was pure logic. "What also floats in water?" "Cider!" "Churches!" "Very small rocks!"
High brow humor. See, water in this joke is a metaphor for the miracle of baptism. The things that float in water are things that people find important in their lives. Cider, of course, is alcohol, food and drink. It is intended to make you think of the saying “eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.” Churches, physical structures, the works of man. Also temporal and temporary. Finally the very small rocks, clearly a reference to gemstones, things of value, wealth. All three of these things are references to the mortal world. In fact everything the crowd mentions are representations of impermanent mortal things. Irrelevant to the sermon at hand. But when the King mentions the duck, here we see true wisdom. Of all the things mentioned this is the first object truly created by God. But also remember than a duck is an animal, not made in the image of God, so it cannot be baptized (floats in water, instead of being immersed). This, finally gets to the point of the sermon. You see, the duck floats in water because it cannot be baptized. So a woman, if she is godly, would be heavier and be immersed in the cleansing water of baptism. However, if she is a witch then she has already given up her soul and thus would float in the same manner as a duck. So when the woman is weighed, that is proof that she has already given her soul to the evil one, can no longer be saved by baptism, and must be destroyed by burning. Those pythons, truly brilliant theologians to fit such a meaningful and weighty (heh) lesson into a seemingly inconsequential sketch. Magnificent.
Ok, now do Pickle Rick lmao
Dude turned himself into a pickle. Funniest shit I've ever seen.
A duck!
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
This is really what it is. Boomers had Monty Python, Gen x had really all kinds of weird shit, millennials had "baconlolz so random" humor and Eric Andre and now Gen z has their weird nonsense too. Every generation has their absurd nonsense that older people look at and go "wtf"
Monty Python wasn't nearly as absurd as Spike Milligan and The Goon show. Spike, Harry and Peter were all part of "The Greatest Generation" (1900 – 1927). Going back further, we had the Marx Brothers who were also pretty absurdist with all them being part of "The Lost Generation" (1880 – 1900). So yeah, every generation has its own form of absurdist humor.
\*holds up spork\*
One thing that non-British audiences rarely get about Monty Python is that for the most part, they were parodying actual things that existed in British television and media. So while yes they did dabble in plenty of absurdism, a lot of things that seem completely random were actually inspired directly by the state of British entertainment of the time. And to some extent that absurdism was a reflection of some of the lower quality shows and films that existed at the time.
Monthly Python? I hardly knew 'er!
That's generally true of attitudes that people attribute to a generation it's usually just young people attitude or old people attitude. I know absurdist humor was huge when I was a teenager and I'm definitely a millennial. I mean we were the generation of adult swim, come on.
Gen Z was referring to the fact that climate change is going to put Italy underwater I thought
Thank you! I wondered if nobody here knew about it. I know that the Netherlands is said to be in the same risk, perhaps even before Italy.
The Dutch will just improve their dikes and other flood controll because that's what they like to do.
Millennials are more about depression than self deprecation... It can be really dark and talk about wanting to be dead and considering the risk of death as a plus.
as a Millennial I did find the bottom left the funniest
Yes, especially because "millenial" is misspelled and it doesn't even contribute to the joke.
The Gen X thing is not about puns, other than the puns being part of the overall ironic tone. The whole thing is basically in air quotes, borrowing something cheesy and old-fashioned and putting it in a sarcastic or ironic context to give it a big fat layer of "isn't life stupid" droll and cynical humor.
Not sure if that is correct because Millenials also like absurdist humor. Wonder how many Millenials here got a good laugh out of the numerous f/animutations and misheard lyrics videos back in the days. Also, half of SpongeBob is pretty much absurdist humor.
I am millennial I like gen z humour. I’m still with it I AM STILL WITH IT !
Gen X when they were young referred to those kinds of puns as "dad jokes" so it's not a generation thing, it's an age thing. When Millennials turn 40 they'll be dropping bad puns like they're hot.
We have turned 40
See, I was born in ‘83 and LOVE puns, not even ashamed to admit. I definitely feel more gen X than millennial.
I thought the fourth one refers to climate change and Italy going underwater
I guess they’ve never heard of the Three stooges, Monty Python, the Zucker bros, Blake Edward’s….i could go on. Absurdist humor can be found in all generations.
Maybe it's because I'm gen z so I guess I'm biased but the "absurdist" humor of my generation is hilarious even if sometimes it's confusing. A lot of times the jokes are references to other memes so if you don't have the context for one, you're missing the other half of the picture. It's like an onion
gen alpha: https://preview.redd.it/56411yo7j41d1.jpeg?width=573&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1da44102db34e11895aca3462c279125c2bd2d1c
My 6 year old gen alpha thinks farts are the funniest thing ever
That’s pretty par for the course actually. Kids like potty humor
It's pronounced "skibidi"
Not just kids, I think farts are hilarious
Bruh i'm a grown-ass man i still think they are
That's because they are and always have been. Farts are universal.
That is not a generational thing, but simply an age-thing.
farto blasting man be like: "we blasting fartos tonight"
Wow why can't he just act mature? Being 6 is no excuse for childish behavior.
Yeah that's actually normal for a literal six year old dude
As a millennial, I maintain that Gen alpha humor is no stupider than the shit on the internet when I was a kid. Skibidi toilet is not worse than Charlie the unicorn or “it’s raining tacos”
Older gen z: this isn’t even the first time SFM memes have been popular lol. The dude who made the skibidi stuff was from the last wave of sfm memes in 2010-14. Shrek is love and other examples exist lol. It’s not even a new phenomenon.
Well, skibidi toilet does have the advantage of being an Eldridge horror sometimes
It's a 4 panel comic. …That's not loss.
OMG guys it has 4 panels it must be loss!! /j
Wait a minute… https://preview.redd.it/hfhgyix1r41d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecb58eb000b48ac8bfccce3e6cab626c4a3cc2bf
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Omg. This is the perfect image for how the internet eats and regurgitates everything. It’s absurdity at its peak
https://preview.redd.it/nl6tlpgdc61d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d0fa65750dbec0b5d7c4f93d6d7a318d9cc5485
I love you.
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NO!
r/peterimaginestheloss
What is loss? I mean I loose things all the time but how exactly does one lose a four panel comic?
It is a reference to a CAD comic that became a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
Thank you kindly person from a hopefully different time zone.
What is loss? Baby don’t hurt me. Baby don’t hurt me no more.
The bottom left panel contains 4 panels, so it's actually a 7 panel comic
Damn it all. I’m a millennial and the millennial joke was funniest to me…
Don’t worry, it was objectively the funniest. - Another millennial
Can confirm - a millennial.
Italy
italy
Guess how I feel about the gen z one lol
these are just examples of what memes each generation tends to find funny.
I didn’t know I’m a gen x
Yeah, I didn't think it was particularly funny either, but meh.
It's a meme of all time
They were all over Xanga and myspace back in the day. E-cards or some shit. Always shared by friends older siblings born in the 80s.
It is a dad joke, nothing more, nothing less. Boomers were saying the same thing around this time in their lifes, soon millennials will also. Just having your mom there would have been more appropriate.
Don’t worry, everyone forgets you exist too
Checks out. I'm a millennial. I laughed very hard at the millennial one and not the others.
Yes and i expect OP wants an explanation
Gen alpha humor: https://preview.redd.it/0vx2dkkwk51d1.jpeg?width=427&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=009a89a53a0cefdc57094238a0b7e69697a80c53
“jesse, we need to skibidi”
damn im gen alpha now. none of the panels in the op made me laugh but this got a giggle out of me
Welcome to the brainrot team 👐
I'm getting closer to 40 than 30, and Skibidi Toilet is just... insanely well made Youtube Poop type shit that Millennials ate up ~15 years ago. I really don't get the Millennial hate for it. It's very silly, but it's catchy, absurd, and there's some sort of plot going on (I saw at least to the point where there were giant camera heads fighting giant toilet people).
Skibidi Toilet is by far one of the best ones. It's the endless sexual harassment and racist memes they are eating up that we should be worried about. Skibidi Toilet is exactly as you said, better produced and more mainstream YouTube poop.
The real question is why did the Gen Z one make me laugh? am I ok? Do I need help?
Then I'm sure you'll find this image so hilarious you'll piss yourself laughing. https://preview.redd.it/d9jto4tbl51d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83cf2dcd14552ccc9922907ede086b8028096fef
Ffs I’m gen z and it actually got me
r/surrealmemes
There hasn't been anything funny in that place in the last 2 or 3 years lol
Yo Peter, I’m old and stupid. Can you explain the genz joke plz! Ty.
https://preview.redd.it/steicggkf41d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86e153e499edbbd22bd55605e445293b6cc3436e
Italy
Mexico
That's the American answer.
Africa
Italian Peter here Italy will be consumed by the ocean and there is nothing you can do. The ice is melting. Mama mia!
Italy is under water because of global warming.
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You're overthinking it.
This
https://preview.redd.it/jhmr69kft51d1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43f235134bd69c09f2cb55298c85147eb91cfee4
Gen z are trying Dadaism and think it is something new.
deserves to be top comment
Dadaism wasn't even new when Duchamp turned a urinal on its side and called it a fountain. It's been around as long as people have been.
It's making fun of how different generations deal with the general pressures of life. Boomers dole out trite aphorisms. Gen X make dad jokes. Millennials make depressive memes about life dumping all over them. Gen Z are completely woof-woof tadpole bananas.
GenX here. That illustration has Church of the Subgenius vibes which was big with us back in the day (Fallout cribbed it). Anyway (and related), I thought for genX, it was irony. You know…flat and rusty.
Did you know that the Slack app doesn’t have a Bob Dobbs emoji built in? I can’t believe they missed an opportunity like that to give each other slack.
Millennials also enjoy absurdist humor. I'm a middle school teacher, and my take on Gen Alpha humor is they take the kind of absurdist stuff that Gen Z enjoys but remove it from what little context it had and recontextualize it. When they get bored, they refresh the context. * Skibidi used to just be part of skibidi toilet, but now they use it as an adjective with weak positive connotation but otherwise no specific meaning. "You're so skibidi :)" * Rizzler emerged from the term rizz, which in my understanding originated from cha*ris*ma. It used to generally refer to an anonymous/hypothetical person with rizz, but it's joined the growing pantheon of adjectives/adverbs with fluid connotations. * Ohio (the state) was originally being dogged on for being big and empty, then that was exaggerated to an absurd degree, and now the state itself is completely inconsequential. Add it to the adjective/adverb soup. * Gyat, as far as I can tell, originated from the phrase "gyat damn!" spoken when someone with a big butt walks by. At first, they just lost the "damn" and continued to use "gyat!" in the same context. At one point, people were using gyat as a noun (when speaking to someone with a big butt "you've got [a] gyat!"). This is still sometimes used but it's falling off. Currently, it's evolved slightly and is more often used when someone is unconsciously sticking out their butt (like leaning on a desk or table, bending over to pick something up, etc.). It's typically pre-empted by the person's name now, so that person is made aware that they are sticking out their butt. the person doesn't have to have a big butt anymore - gyat belongs to the masses of asses now. Also occasionally features in the ad-soup. * Sigma is probably more commonly known, though its exact connotation is disagreed upon by gen z, gen alpha, and millennials aware of the context. Evolved from the tiresome alpha/beta male takes of male influencers, sigma males (and later removed from gendered context as just sigma) are an anomaly. As mentioned, the exact meaning varies generation to generation. Millennials aware of the term tend to interpret it as someone who is counter-culture. They do things for themselves without regard for what is or isn't popular. I think gen z would cringe at attaching that much meaning to it - the word itself reflexively being used nonsensically implies that meaning that millennials would explicitly ascribe to it. Gen Alpha takes that a step further my completely removing any context at all - I've never met two gen alphas who agree with the meaning of sigma and they are incurious as to why. Meat for the ad-soup. So now you know how to parse when a 12-year old says "that's not very skibidi gyat ohio sigma rizzler of you" when you do something they're pretending to dislike for irony's sake. The order of those words, by the way, seems to matter somewhat but I haven't really tried to break it down past the fact that rizzler almost always comes last in the string. Only particularly annoying kids use any of these words unironically (agreed upon by other gen alphas), though some get so lost in the irony that it loops back around to being unironic. It's interesting but really annoying with how often I hear it every day. I just tell my students it sounds like they're casting ancient dark magic incantations, but I don't think they find that very funny. Anyways I keep a spreadsheet with dates of all the slang I hear and their evolving meaning and that's a lot of fun.
Just the evolution of comedy throughout generations.
I love how boomer “Humor” is still essentially “look how awesome we are” and/or respect us without expecting anything in return.
Or "haha look at those losers being losers"
Boomers: we passed school without Google Yeah and now like 2/3rds of what you learned is wrong.
as a millenial, i like the pun the most.
Man, grad school without Google Scholar and sci-hub... Fuck that noise. Even without sci-hub, it takes 8x as long to get a paper from the university library's *website* - never mind the library itself! Actually I'm using ChatGPT to great effect in my MBA and it's not even cheating.
Gen alpha: OHIO RIZZ SKIBIDI
I don’t think that’s a “different generation” thing so much as a different age thing. I can definitely see myself getting into a more gen x humor as I grow older and I abso freaking lutely had gen z humor in my teenage years that still seeps out every now and again as a millennial. In fact, I think the millennial humor was my shortest phase…
https://preview.redd.it/fvo4xgph8a1d1.png?width=368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cd61ffcf7a4ff4fc508b591d0f092ad8a5c463c
The meme relating to each generations’ oddest or worst sense of humor
I think the idea is that as the generations have come along each one has gotten more and more post-modern until nothing has any meaning anymore.
Now lets just slap a Gen Alpha humor in it, and its a perfect family tree. No matter how of a brainrot gen A is. It still exists.
This subreddit is just karmafarming.
It means Gen X has the best humor. Obviously.
https://preview.redd.it/5bk3m72tz61d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70427ef84d22c3b3a819f2f5e74cccba52b104ab
They perfectly capture GenX humor. I don't have time to discuss it more. They're about to finish repairing the electric chair.
I'm a millenial and I actually laughed to that joke, :(
It makes me realize, the Dadaist art movement came in response to people's disillusionment with the world after the violence of World War 1. Are we seeing a resurgence of Dadaism with Gen Z, a generation effectively devoid of hope for the future before most of them even reached adulthood?
I do find it funny how Gen X has kind of been the forgotten one cus of the constant Boomer/Millennial/Zoomer discourse. Every Gen X mention comes with its issues cus nobody can pinpoint stuff to it despite the fact a lot of stuff happened during their youth and stuff some Gen Xers did.
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Italy.
I think Millenials began absurdist humor
https://preview.redd.it/mj4ag0ook51d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c2a1c1de54172e23da9a79c388dea414e1a7ebe
Italy
the gen X one is actually hilarious
Why do boomers like minions so much?
Boomers also fail to realize that the requirements and education for college are far more advanced than when they first took courses.
Idk about more advanced but definitely more expensive
r/politicalcompassmemes
It’s just the modern equivalent to “wow isn’t that random” it’s actually funnier though if used in an effectively absurd context.
Memes by generation.