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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Weird. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a bad meme from the start

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Got it, thanks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago

His Ass Is Not A Mechanic 😂

[–] technojamin 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one
could've said it better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is it like nobody asked to be told about this?

Correct.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] agissilver 19 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MBZzZzZzZz 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] ExfilBravo 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Desistance 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Busta Rhymes was the biggest offender of fisheye.

[–] akaxaka 2 points 1 year 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 4 points 1 year ago

Well, people did get their freak on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, it feels just like it should.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was intergalactic planetary.

Planetary

Planetary

[–] pete_the_cat 3 points 1 year ago

I like my sugar with coffee and cream.

[–] Glowstick 21 points 1 year ago

Actually it was more like this -

Everyone: give us freakin cool looking videos

Video industry: *delivers*

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Virtual Insanity

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never forget what they took from us.

[–] killeronthecorner 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Uhn. Yeah. Uhn.

[–] Phanlix 12 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pete_the_cat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] UltraMagnus0001 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] creditCrazy 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Missy Elliot videos were the best

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s the rent on that cheese grater?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Chef_Boyargee 3 points 1 year ago

Goddamnit. Take my upvote and get out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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