I was touring DC showing it to a German friend that was studying in the US. We were standing behind the capitol building when were approached by two missionaries(?) trying to get us to join their church. One says to me, “everything thay has happened and everything that will happen is in the Bible”. So I straight up ask him “When will DC get sacked?”, and they decided to cut the conversation right there because they assumed I was trolling. Well, what do you know, two years later, same place where i asked that question, Jan 6 happens. I guess it wasn’t such a stupid question after all.
Also, another unrelated story from that trip. We were walking around the memorial fountain when a lady comes up to us “We are going to thank our veterans, come join us in thanking our veterans”, they seemed to be WWII veterans and my German friend says “Well I guess I should thank them for not killing my grandfather”
Oh yeah, gotta keep it dolphin-with-a-brazilian smooth. The trick is to skip the shaving, waxing and Nair style stuff. Just use a Zippo and burn the hairs off. Baby smooth in no time.
It’s a vestigial structure from when the meme format was first introduced. It was meant to show doing something despite no one requesting it. It could work without it, but then it’s considered a different meme format.
Some formats get abused when people don’t recognize them as formats. “Demotivational posters” were the done thing for a while. Then advice animals. Then rage comics. The people doing it genuinely don’t understand they can just not do it, because they’ve never thought about it for one second. They view this as the baseline.
This can happen across entire commercial mediums. Giant robots started as a specific narrative power fantasy and became the setting where animes happen. Same deal for magical high schools, rigid-but-shallow dystopian societies, and isekais. Holy shit, do isekais make the issue crystal clear. The instant utility of shoving a like-you-but protagonist into a different world is shamelessly direct. But it keeps showing up in stories where there’s no reason the main character has to be from somewhere else. These authors think that getting Wizard Of Oz’d is just the paper you write the story on.
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