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[–] LibertyLizard 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I’ve been seeing this meme format for years and it still makes absolutely no sense to me.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It started off with something like

"People say: X

Object in meme says: y!"

Someone made a meme saying

"Nobody:

Object in meme says: y"

And it was amusing

Then EVERYONE did it and now you might as well not even have the top part anymore.

Example of original style:

[–] LibertyLizard 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But what does Nobody: mean? How does it relate to the second part of the meme? Why is it funny??? I’m still confused.

[–] MediumGray@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It is terribly worded, so it's unnecessarily confusing and unclear, but it means 'nobody says (or does) anything', thus indicating that the second action is unprompted.

[–] LibertyLizard 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you. I'm getting some slightly different answers here though so I wonder if everyone even agrees on what this means.

[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 7 points 2 days ago

Nobody followed by blank means that nobody else is saying, doing, or thinking of whatever the last subject is doing

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

As far as I understand it’s supposed to mean the whatever thing is uncalled for.