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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 80 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I still don't really get how the "no one" tag works.

This meme works perfectly fine without "no one" preceding it.

Most "no one" memes do.

Why add the no one in front?

Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

Thank you for your time

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

Kinda, as if the idea the meme talks about came out of nowhere, unrequested

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Weird. Thanks.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was a bad meme from the start

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Got it, thanks

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate it as much as I hate punchline images that tell you how to feel about it.

DESTRUCTION 100

(Face of a meme guy)

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

His Ass Is Not A Mechanic 😂

[–] technojamin@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It’s a riff on the meme formats that go:

My cashier: …

Me: …

“No one:” represents something coming out of the blue, completely unprompted. It’s definitely getting overused, but that’s just an inevitable part of the lifecycle of a meme.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't mind it being used if it makes sense, but it seems unnecessary most of the time, drawing attention away from the meme.

I'd also like to point out that almost every answer about the no one memes describes a different reasoning for what it is used.

This implies its unnecessary quality. Subjective, important placeholder.

[–] technojamin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree that it usually doesn’t add anything to the meme, especially nowadays. It’s a pretty low-effort template.

I like Know Your Meme’s description:

a phrasal template used to mock people who strive to attract attention and tend to provide unsolicited opinions, as well as for observational humor.

I think its original usage in mocking attention seeking was funnier. It’s basically generalized into any observational humor though, which is when it becomes unnecessary.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

That makes sense to me where it would work. The memer would have to have an accurate sense of humor instead of just scatter shooting the phrase all over the place, but that's difficult, so we end up with these. Thanks

[–] Elektrotechnik@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

THANK YOU! It has become a pet peeve of mine. I think it's supposed to reference "no one asked". But if that's the case, the meme should be

Nobody: "Hey I'd really like every music video to be shot with a fish-eye lens".

or

Everyone:

It doesn't make sense.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I think this is the first explanation I found searching, "no one asked", but yea, if that's correct, it is not super clear and is often redundant

[–] jwt@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No one
could've said it better.

[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

Correct.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"MTV turns 30 today and we would like to thank them for 5 years of music videos."

[–] agissilver@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

MTV is 42. Somehow though the 70s were only 30 years ago. These facts are simultaneously true.

[–] MBZzZzZzZz@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

or was is Missy Elliot? We went a little H.A.M. on the fish eye lens back then.

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Busta Rhymes was the biggest offender of fisheye.

[–] akaxaka@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Courtesy of Hype Williams (Harold Williams) the director of all these music videos.

From wikipedia:

Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's "Gold Digger".[4]

[–] MBZzZzZzZz@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Well, people did get their freak on.

[–] pingveno@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Listening to how that video was made was awesome. It's so simple and obvious when it's explained to you, even if it's not particularly obvious on its face.

[–] MBZzZzZzZz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, it feels just like it should.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was intergalactic planetary.

Planetary

Planetary

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I like my sugar with coffee and cream.

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Actually it was more like this -

Everyone: give us freakin cool looking videos

Video industry: *delivers*

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago

Virtual Insanity

[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never forget what they took from us.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Uhn. Yeah. Uhn.

[–] Phanlix@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really miss old school MTV though. I feel like, for a time, bands were doing some crazy music videos that were as much works of art as the music itself.

I do too. I remember for a short period, you'd go over to anyone's house and they'd just have MTV on a TV somewhere playing video after video.

It was immensely popular, and it was a fun way to passively see a bunch of artists without any effort.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I think missy actually started it first and the Puffy s videos was similar

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago

Missy Elliot videos were the best

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Futuristic cheese graters will be anti-gravity, and so will toasters. You'll really have a hard time keeping your breakfast and lunch down in the world of the future.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today.

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

In the year 2525 you won't need no wife. You can pick you sons, pick your daughters to from the bottom of a long glass tube.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

"Damn it, Jerry. We bought this computer and we sure as hell are going to use it!"

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What’s the rent on that cheese grater?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Goddamnit. Take my upvote and get out

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Surely that's just a present-day cheerleader with a cartoon character stuck in it.