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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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While grateful for the explanation, I find myself no less confused.
I guess if I have to explain the joke, I have no one to blame but myself.
The redhead in armor is Chappell Roan at this year’s VMAs, and the blonde is Sabrina Carpenter from a performance on SNL. The original photo in the post was making fun of noticing the superficial resemblance of a shot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to those two looks.
Damn it’s weird being old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but still knowing and liking new pop music.
I think the problem is taking two separate photos from two different events on different days and thinking people would put them together.
I bet you could find all sorts of separate photos of musicians from different events where one has armor and another has a red cape.
Okay, this pretty much helps, but now I don't know what a VMA or an SNL is.
I'm going to go with "Viking Marauder Awards", a yearly event where people re-enact the sacking of the Lindesfarne Monastery etc, via the medium of song and dance (and pyrotechnics).
and "Sitting Near Larry", a weekly TV programme where a bloke called Larry sits down somewhere, and then semi-famous people come and sit near him and perform things. Larry has never heard of any of them, so gives them well-meaning but slightly patronising advice. Larry is just off-screen in the image shown above.
If "Sitting Near Larry" was a genuine and honest show, I'd watch the hell out of it.
Someone needs to make you incharge of a TV network
Nailed it!
Thanks. That helps. I still have no idea who those Chapel and Sabrina are, but I now know they are supposed singers and that this is about they being similar.
I guess people that don't know Buffy at least could identify one of them as the one in How I Met your Mother or from American Pie movies and the other having a cameo appearence in Big Bang Theory.
I agree you are in a weird position knowing something so old and something so new at the same time 😅
I'm old enough to have been a fan of Buffy, but didn't watch TV back then. I also enjoy some modern pop music but, in the vast majority of cases, have never seen the artists. I'm also terminally bad at faces even if I have seen them (I've had to ask my wife whether a picture of her was her; she took it well).
I did actually recognize Alyson Hanigan, since she has a few distinctive expressions and features, but had no idea of the rest.
All that said to say: thanks for the explanation; me not getting the joke or reference doesn't mean it was a bad one.
I understood SNL
Explanation is the death of comedy.
If explaining a joke makes it not funny, it was never funny in the first place. It was either just referential or based on shock value.
Oh I know - as soon as I find a shovel, we’ll complete the funeral service and then it’s time for the wake :)
Same. No idea what any of the images are aboot.
God damn I always forget how hot that redhead is.
*bonk*
It’s true tho
*self bonk*
I'm absolutely a simp for Buffy and Willow.
Is this a meme?
It is if you’re old enough to know who the pic is actually of, or young enough to know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter actually are?
Ugh... I'm in that first category. I have no idea who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are.
I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of "man those people are constantly in the news."
Don't stop. I love these layered generational memes.
Like "here's a picture of Skibibi toilet recreating the famous scene in I love Lucy"
It would have to be the scene with the chocolates right?
I know who Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are but I'm not familiar with the original photo. I feel like I should be, though
Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Alyson Hannigan This one time at band camp
Thank you, that would have been bugging me all day
I think you need an "and" there where you used an "or", but I guess I'm in neither category.
Yes