• seemefeelme@infosec.pub
    503·
    1 day ago

    Joker poster beside other comic book posters: Stay, they’re probably cool. Joker poster beside grindset posters: Refer to counselling and taxi home. Joker poster beside Joker 2019 Poster: RUN TO FUCK

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
    59·
    1 day ago

    This display used to be the first thing you would see when you walked into my home.

    The only reason I moved them was because I replaced them to make room for my two massive bearded dragon tanks. 😎

    Any future partner better match my energy LOL

        • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          If I walk into a woman’s apartment, and one of the first things I see is something like “can’t handle me at worst”, and I <3 Dylan, posters I am probably going to end the pursuit of this relationship. I would do this because I have seen this common thread with people who do this. That common thread is that they have personality disorders, or are otherwise unstable. Pattern recognition is a survival instinct. Pattern recognition can be wrong, but this isn’t seeing faces in wood grain. This is seeing aspects of people’s personalities that they, themselves, value to the point where they spent money to display it on their wall.

          Beyond this specific situation, you know how many times I have seen “it’s just memes” turn into “I am now in favor of an ethno state”? The average person to white supremacist/whatever pipeline created by the social influence of fora for “it’s just memes/jokes” is real, I have watched it happen. Feel disaffected from society? Well I am here to ease you into the idea that it isn’t your fault, it is the fault of women, and brown people, starting with some casual jokes, and memes.

      • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
        1014·
        15 hours ago

        I must be way too old. Being a nice guy is bad? Fuck, I’ve been living under a rock. Is this about incense or this sigma thing?

        Edit: Lol, why the downvotes? You guys aren’t nice!

        • DeLacue@lemmy.world
          36·
          24 hours ago

          Being a nice person isn’t bad but “nice guy” is a term for someone who presents themselves as nice and polite (but only to people they’re attracted to) and expects romantic attention in return for being nice. Basically, they think the fact that they put so much effort into being nice they deserve that romantic attention. They’ll often talk about how nice they are.

          Of course, anyone who needs to repeatedly tell you they are nice tend not be.

          • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
            85·
            14 hours ago

            Ok. Thx. I am not from the US and in my 40s. This whole thing of labeling people into categories is somewhat foreign to me. I mean my generation over here did this as well to a degree (and I admit I never got it), but it appears this has become much more dominant thin (at least at the other side of the pacific).

            I also tend to aggressively ignore things I deam stupid. But my children will be teenagers soo, guess I’ll have to put some time into researching these kind of things.

            • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
              31·
              4 hours ago

              Bro yall labeled people too quit acting like it’s so :pinches nose: unthinkable! I don’t even know where you’re from and I know that’s bullshit.

              Here we are. Adapt. Take responsibility.

          • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca
            9·
            23 hours ago

            This, and, speaking for myself, I once thought that’s literally how you attract someone because that’s what my mom taught me. “be nice to women, find a nice girl, ???, marriage.” in that order. But I was nice to everyone, not just people I liked.

            The one time I ever talked about how nice I thought I was, was when I was 18 and the girl I liked called me creepy when I was being nice to her all the time showering her with compliments and ttying to hang out with her. I went on this little rant, out of frustration, on FB in a status update about how women were bitches for not liking me and calling me creepy when I’ve just been trying to he nice to them. Yeah, at that point, that status update wasn’t exaclty being nice to anyone.

            Actually that was probably when I took a look at myself and realized just being nice isn’t gonna cut it, and my mom’s advice was shit. THEEEEEN, a few years later I heard about Nice Guys™

            It’s okay I’m now 32 and I have seen the light, it’s just took me until a couple years ago to figure it all out

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
          151·
          24 hours ago

          You apparently have been living under a rock because there is a world of difference between someone who is nice and also a guy and someone being a “nice guy”.

          Also the posters are red flags not because they reference nerdy things but because they show an unhealthy obsession with fictional characters who, though charismatic, are evil people who justify their violent actions with straw man arguments about power and corruption. The words on the Thanos poster put an especially fine point on that part.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2101·
    2 days ago

    I used to worry about what women would think when they saw my home, but it turned out that none of them ever see it at all so I might as well be true to myself and collect all the My Little Ponies.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      119·
      2 days ago

      My (now) wife freaked out coming to my apartment the first time. Turns out, she’s a huge Rush fan:

      In my living room at the time:

      All I hear is “Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

      70% sure she just married me for the TV.

    • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
      541·
      2 days ago

      My husband was worried about bringing me to his apartment for the first time when we were dating because it was filled with tarantulas, scorpions, and snakes. Did not bother me in the slightest and I really got into keeping them too. I did put my foot down on centipedes though because fuck that (too fast, too hot).

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      If people can’t love you because they can’t accept that Fluttershy is best pony then that’s their loss.

      You still have us. Brohoof /)

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            Maybe I’m just your basic bitch*, but it’s Twilght Sparkle for me. I just like her look; last time I had my hair dyed it it was modeled after her mane / her anthro’s hair. I didn’t really like the show, but I only watched a few episodes.

            * is that word gender-neutral in context, or should I be using “bastard” or something else?

            • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 day ago

              Y’all are crazy. Grown adults going on about silly ponies.

              The real G.O.A.T. (and I don’t mean Grogar) is Pinkie Pie. She’s fun, chill, suprisingly powerful, and got real backstory depth.

              • Batman@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                4·
                2 days ago

                Discord got me hooked. Cheese Sandwich made me realize there was never any going back now.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      121·
      2 days ago

      I’m a married man in a great relationship. Our office is covered with My Little Pony merch and posters.

      She thought it was weird, but she liked it because it was weird.

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
        71·
        1 day ago

        Being anti-brony is a symptom of toxic masculinity. The Internet went after that fandom in a way I haven’t seen since furries.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          You gotta admit part of it was probably deserved.

          Like the fact that people were trying to create imaginary friend ponies using Buddhist meditation techniques, the existence of Cupcakes (and all attendant media), and the popularity of “clop” flooding Google images such that a lot of little kids probably saw pony porn while looking for pictures of Twilight Sparkle to trace….

          I saw this as someone with a homemade Applejack perler bead on my refrigerator.

          It is endless amusing that this whole thing started because some journalist lambasted Friendship is Magic for using Flash, /co/ got intrigued, and then the rest is history.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Every person I know including me is like “nah my place is way too messy, laundry everywhere, can’t meet there” so you just end up splitting a hotel for a bang

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    82·
    1 day ago

    If you don’t love me at my nerdiest, you don’t deserve me at my I get off eating my partner out.

    • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      22 hours ago

      There’s nerd and then there’s Thanos grindset nerd. I do not acknowledge the latter as being a true subset of the former.

      Edit: It was bothering me so I have to point out that I’m making a No True Scotsman Fallacy here. This does not change my statement.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        2·
        18 hours ago

        No. Grindset nerds are a cancer that must be excised for the health of the community.

        Like the kind of nerd that would let autocorrect replace excised with exercised.

        • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          I agree with you, but I can’t recognize that I’m using a fallacy and then let it go undisclosed. I’m that kind of nerd… But yes, burn them out of the community with fire or empathy, whichever strategy works fastest.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    5·
    1 day ago

    Joker poster
    Fight option

    She should don Catwoman costume, gently pummel the dude to submission, and say “How’s this for a BOTTOM TEXT”?

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    333·
    2 days ago

    a bit strange but I don’t really see the problem tbh. Are these references I’m not getting? I recognize joker and thanos.

    • 474D@lemmy.world
      693·
      2 days ago

      The Thanos poster has been “alpha-male”-ified and the joker is a cringe incel reference. The fact you don’t know is a good thing.

        • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
          81·
          1 day ago

          Honestly I am somewhat confused too. I think the joker movie joker is kinda incel ref because he is kinda an incel and kinda hates women (I don’t remember the movie too well)

          That seems to be the dark knight joker tho. So idk.

          And honestly dark knight joker is amazing. Like I like the movie because the joker is a great villain in this movie.

          • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            7·
            1 day ago

            I think even calling Phoenix’s Joker incel is bit of a stretch. I’ve also only seen it long ago in theater, but I recall there was only a small part his imagined romance but it was only small contributor or result of his mental issues, and his hate was more so on the people abusing him, didn’t really strike me as a woman hating incel in any way

            • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
              2·
              5 hours ago

              This is correct but if you check the media coverage (even before the movie came out) there was def this narrative being pushed. I think it’s because libs were uncomfortable with how the movie portrayed class struggle so they latched onto this aspect

            • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
              3·
              1 day ago

              I am not arguing that he is and I don’t think the people calling it a incel ref are saying that he is. I think they are saying that he is weirdly deli about a woman and is popular with a lot of incels because he is relatable for them. (Hating society is a way and kinda delulu about women)

              Also I want to repeat, I might misremember stuff.

          • Zetta@mander.xyz
            5·
            1 day ago

            I don’t think the joker hated women at all in Joker. As far as I remember his attitude to both genders is the same.

        • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          26·
          1 day ago

          Incels scorn society and the world for making them ugly, no powerful jawline, no American Pie sex adventures in high school, and no nice suits to wear to their minimum wage jobs. To incels, they are the forgotten scum of the earth.

          Well, The Joker is a film about an abused, poor, and lonely comedian getting his face kicked in by teenagers about a month before rising up, killing a late night tv host, and vengefully breaking Society down into chaos and misery.

          So, they just think The Joker makes them look cool. That’s really it. Every time they think about shooting up an elementary school, they also think about Arthur Fleck gunning down Murray Franklin.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          18·
          1 day ago

          The movie itself isn’t a problem, But the kind of person that fancies the joker and Thanos *as role models are. It’s one thing to appreciate the dark side it’s another to idolize it.

          The movies aren’t the problem.